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Bram Moolenaarfff2bee2010-05-15 13:56:02 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3a. Last change: 2010 May 15
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020033Cursor positioning wrong with 0x200e character. (John Becket, 2010 May 6)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034
Bram Moolenaarab8205e2010-07-07 15:14:03 +020035Test 69 breaks on MS-Windows, both 32 and 64 builds. (George Reilly, 2010 Feb
3626)
37
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020038Bug: searching for tags file uses 'suffixesadd', should not happen. (Dominique
39Pelle, 2010 June 28)
40
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020041When directory "/tmp/tags" contains "tags1" and "tags2", setting 'tags' to
42"/tmp/tags/*" doesn't pick up these files. (Simon Ruggier, 2010 Mar 17)
43
44":command Print echo 'print'" works, but ":Print" doesn't. Builtin Print
45should be overruled. (Aaron Thoma)
46
47Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
48^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
49
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020050Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
51Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
52
53'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
54
55":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
56accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
57
58Better Czech keymap. (Stepnem, 2010 May 4) Use if no response from Jiri
59Tobisek.
60
61Use Dutch spell files from:
62http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-nl
63Looks like this is newer than the new wordlist for Dutch:
64http://www.opentaal.org/bestanden/1_10/nl_NL-Pack
Bram Moolenaar9db9d9c2010-01-16 14:29:14 +010065
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010066Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020067Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
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69"make install" installs some of the .info files on Unix.
70(James Vega, 2010 Mar 30)
71
72Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
73Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
74
758 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
76 after typing something.
77Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
78function that resets did_cursorhold.
Bram Moolenaar555cdc22010-01-12 21:31:21 +010079
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020080Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
81Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
82
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +010083I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
84Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
85an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +010086
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020087Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
88
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010089Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
90non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010091
92iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
93Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
94or replace with a character and continue?
95
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010096Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
97Requires configure check for localtime().
98Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
99
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100100Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
101Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
102path.
103
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200104":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
105like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
106
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100107Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
108look into reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
109
110Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
111Only with "vim -u NONE".
112
113Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
114
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100115Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
116
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200117Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
118mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
119Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100120
121Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less
122reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option?
123Most time is spent in in_id_list().
124
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200125Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
126it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
127(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
128
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200129When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
130Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
131
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100132In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
133Jun 1)
134
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100135When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
136not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
137string value.
138
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200139There is no command line completion for ":lmap".
140
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100141Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
142
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100143For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
144line argument -noregister.
145
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200146When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
147doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100148
149Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
150(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
151Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
152There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
153Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
154
155":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
156highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
157to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
158
159Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
160Probably needs a bit of work.
161
162List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
163Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
164
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100165Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
166
167Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
1682009 Jul 18)
169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100170Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
171Added test, updates, June 23.
172
173Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
174window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
175Needs more work.
176
177Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
178
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100179When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
180few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
181
182'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
183(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
184
185Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
186J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
187
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200188When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
189for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
190
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200191Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
192
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100193When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
194
195":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
196because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
197ex_docmd.c.
198
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200199Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100200Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
201
202string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
203for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
204
205Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
206
207'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
20820)
209
210Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
211And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
21223)
213
214Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
2152009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
216
217Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
218
219Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
220SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
221
222When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
223cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
224
225When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
226indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
227(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
228
229Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
230are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
231Ignore window options when not in the right window?
232Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
233that doesn't have a window.
234
235When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
236doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
237
238getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
239displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
240
241":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
242
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100243There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
244was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
245perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
246
247Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
248work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
249Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
250
251Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100253Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
254command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
255
256Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
257
258Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
259does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
260
261Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
262(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
263
264maparg() doesn't return the flags, such as <buffer>, <script>, <silent>.
265These are needed to save and restore a mapping.
266Also: the rhs string is not always correct. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2009 Sept 29)
267
268Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
269char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
270
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100271Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
272messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
273es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
2742009 Jan 26)
275
276When $HOME contains special characters, sich as a comma, escape them when used
277in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
278Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
279
280Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
281one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
282
283Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
284a modeline.
285
286Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
287Sergey Khorev)
288
289Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
290part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000291
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000292netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
293number to be below last visible line.
294
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100295After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
296correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
297
298Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
299(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
300
301Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
302that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
303
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200304Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
305register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
306(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
307
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100308Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
309Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
310
311Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
312make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
313
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100314When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
315still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
316
317"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
318(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
319
320Update src/testdir/main.aap.
321
322"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
323
324Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
325that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
326ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
327Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
328
329Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
330
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000331Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
332
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100333MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
334doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
335probably causes this.
336
337'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02003382009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100339
340Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
341 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
342 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
343(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
344
345Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
346":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
347option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
348is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000349
350Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun
35111) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call
352in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command.
353Another valgrind output Jun 30.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100355":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
356first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000357
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000358Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
359laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
360Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100362Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
363anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
364
365On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
366doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
367Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
368Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
369
370":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
371
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000372When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
373'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
374fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
375the buffer to be unmodified.
376Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
377another look at it.
378
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100379Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
380
381c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
382(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
383
384Win32: ":dis +" shows nothing, but "+p does insert text. Problem with "* and
385"+ being the same thing?
386
387You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
388error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
389Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
390at the other match for 0xBF.
391
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000392Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000393
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100394When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
395argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
396
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000397Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
398backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
399
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000400After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
401(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000402command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000403
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000404":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
405Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
406
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100407Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
408Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
409
410When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
411either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
412put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
413
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004148 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
415 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
416
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000417Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
418Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
419Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
420Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
421(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
422
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100423Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
424
425ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000426
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000427Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
428(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
429escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
430an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000431This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
432July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000433
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100434Win32: The "4913" file is sometimes not deleted. Perhaps another program has
435opened it? Use FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE? (Craig Barkhouse, 2009 Nov 6)
436
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000437The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
438Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
439Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
440find_special_key() also has this problem.
441
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000442Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
4432008 May 14)
444
445Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
446Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
447'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100449Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
450Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
451
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000452Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
453Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
454
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100455Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
456
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000457The utf class table is missing some entries:
458 0x2212, minus sign
459 0x2217, star
460 0x2500, bar
461 0x26ab, circle
462
463Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
464line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
465
466GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
467Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100469Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
470try the Cocoa version.
471
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000472Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
473changed or the window is resized.
474
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000475Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
476Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000477
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000478Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
4791) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
480
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000481C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
482with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
483Try to reproduce at work.
484
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100485Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
486Is there a way to list all the files first?
487
488When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
489result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
49016)
491
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000492Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
493Await response to question to make the register writable.
494
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100495src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
496remark why.
497
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000498Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
4991)
500
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100501In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
502each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
503
504try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
505
506Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin)
507
508":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
509Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
510
511":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
512in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
513
514Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
515
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000516Including NFA regexp code:
517Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
518Useful in tests.
519Performance tests:
520- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
521- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
522- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100523- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000524- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
525 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000526
527Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
528Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
529
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000530Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
531Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
532Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000533
534C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
535(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100537Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
538":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
539
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000540When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
541and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
542
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000543Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
544 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
545
546New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
547
548'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
549Likonen, March 19)
550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100551Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
552other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
553
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000554The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
555appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
556matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100558When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
559character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
560'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
561(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
562
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000563Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520
564by Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott)
565Asked Vissale to make the scripts more friendly for the Vim distribution.
566New version received 2008 Jan 6.
567
568Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
569Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000570
571More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
572
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000573Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
574back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
575Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000576
577Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
578No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
579
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000580Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
581terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000582
583Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
584
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000585Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
586but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
587that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000588
589When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
590
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100591Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
592Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
593
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000594Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
595popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
596size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
597This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
598
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000599When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
600to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
601
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000602Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
603a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
604isn't right?
605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100606When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
607it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
608
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000609Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
610then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
611files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000612Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
613indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
614":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
615in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
616quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
617Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000618
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000619When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
620parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
621neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
622particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
623Jun 3)
624However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
625the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000626
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100627Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
628Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
629
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000630Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
631switch list is noticed:
632 switch (i)
633 {
634 case 1:
635 foobar:
636 }
637
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000638Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
639
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000640Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
641with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
642go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
643moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
644
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000645Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
6462007 Feb 8)
647
648Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
649 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000650 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100651 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
652
653Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
654set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000655
656Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
657
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000658Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
659
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000660Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
661Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
662New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
663patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
664
665Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
666Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
667
668Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
669Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
670Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
671
672Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
673
674Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
6752007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000676Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000677
678Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +0000679label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
680
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000681Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
682with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
683Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000684
685Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
686Build another diff.exe somehow?
687
688Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
689pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
690
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000691Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
692
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100693Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
694 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
695Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
696contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
697Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
698
699Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200700Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100701Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
702
703Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a scrollbar
704Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz, 2008 Oct)
705
706Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
707Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
708only takes 'shellslash' into account.
709
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000710Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
711Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
712
713Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
714Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
715Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
716properly?
717
718Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
7192007 Jun 21)
720
721When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
722Jun 18)
723
724If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
725
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100726Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
727windows. (Adam George)
728
729When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right.
730(Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2.
731
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000732F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
733modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
734K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000735
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000736UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
737to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
738
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000739In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
740the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
741
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000742C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
743
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000744":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
745
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000746When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000747error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000748
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000749Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
750use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
751
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000752Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
753if_ruby.c.
754
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000755":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
756
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100757Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
758Needs more work.
759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000760The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
761it in keep_msg?
762
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000763Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200764error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000765name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
766
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +0000767Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
768longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +0000769
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100770Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
771Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
772Also for ":w" without a file name.
773The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000774
775"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
776Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000778VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
779directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
780(Zoltan Arpadffy)
781
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000782VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
783
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000784input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
785name?
786
787getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
788element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
789
790Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
791
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000792When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
793(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
794Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
795will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
796
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100797gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
798This also fails with --remote.
799
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100800When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
8012008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
802all places where buf_freeall() is called?
803
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000804":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
805Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
806
807aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
808
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100809When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
810(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
811
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000812Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
813the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
814
815Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000816Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
817Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
818argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000819(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000820
821GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
822
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100823Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
824superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
825
826Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
827character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
828
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000829Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
830Jun 5)
831
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100832Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
8332008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
834Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
835
836In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
837but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
838Jul 22)
839
840There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
841
842Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
843":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
844somehow? Or use a new function.
845
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000846Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
847
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100848Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
849that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000850
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000851Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
852moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
853that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000855The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
856
857Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
858loading all files.
859
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100860Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
861line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
862after starting up?
863
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100864When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000865cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
866the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
867
868Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
869has been created.
870
871Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
872shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
873fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
874background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
875A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000876
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000877These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
878 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
879 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
880 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
881
882Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
883partly. (2006 Dec 7)
884
885In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
886buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
887reload it then?
888
889New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
890previous version.
891
892For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
893
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000894Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
895only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
896
897Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
898tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
899doesn't contain other directories.
900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000901Linux distributions:
902- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
903 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
904 xfree-xterm".
905- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
906
907Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
908start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
909show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
910middle?
911
912When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000913(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000914connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
915dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
916
917Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
918
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100919When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
920current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
921the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000923When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
924Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
925
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000926Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
927 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
928 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
929 - getting colors in xterm
930 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
931
932Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
933Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
934
935Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000937A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
938Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
939
940Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
941Dara, 2006 June 21)
942
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000943Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
944number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
945
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000946After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
947the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
948
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000949Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
950Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
951about this.
952
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000953Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
954copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
955error and stop using the connection to the server.
956
957Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
958Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
959
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200960Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01009612008 Sep 29)
962
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000963In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
964check the result of has("patch13").
965
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100966Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
967restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
968
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000969Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
970put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
971
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100972Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
973resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
974
975In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
976can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
977
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000978Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
979to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
980
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000981GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
982maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
983doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100984Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
985visible.
986
987GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
988the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
989
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000990The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
991be only one.
992
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000993"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
994script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
995
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000996It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
997the function name before resolving it to a number?
998 let d = {}
999 fun! d.foo()
1000 echo "here"
1001 endfun
1002 call d.foo(9)
1003
1004Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1005only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001006Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1007used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1008
1009Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1010output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1011Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1012
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001013Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001014"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1015name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1016Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001017
1018Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1019(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1020
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001021Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1022as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1023
1024Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1025Jan 1)
1026
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001027Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
102823)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001029
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001030":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1031tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1032Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001033
1034xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1035buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1036Xterm 224 supports it!
1037
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001038When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1039text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1040latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1041
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001042Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1043
1044Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1045no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1046
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001047In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1048VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
10492007 Oct 16)
1050
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001051When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
1052disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
1053
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001054TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1055Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1056
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001057Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001059When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1060typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1061Sep 3, 11)
1062
1063When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1064respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1065the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1066what happens for the GUI.
1067
1068X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1069pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1070clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1071Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1072Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1073clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1074
1075Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
1076starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
1077size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where you
1078only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
1079
1080":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1081this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1082
1083When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1084Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1085restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1086
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001087Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
10882010 Jun 30)
1089
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001090
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001091Vim 7.3:
Bram Moolenaara800b422010-06-27 01:15:55 +02001092- in August remove UF_VERSION_CRYPT_PREV and UF_VERSION_PREV.
Bram Moolenaare667c952010-07-05 22:57:59 +02001093- Conceal feature: no update when moving to another window. (Dominique Pelle,
Bram Moolenaarccd9ccf2010-07-07 13:19:55 +02001094 2010 Jul 5) Vince will look into it.
Bram Moolenaarcdf04202010-05-29 15:11:47 +02001095Patches to include:
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001096- Patch for Lisp support with ECL (Mikael Jansson, 2008 Oct 25)
1097- Gvimext patch to support wide file names. (Szabolcs Horvat 2008 Sep 10)
1098- Patch to support netbeans for Mac. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2009 Jun 25)
1099- Patch to support clipboard for Mac terminal. (Jjgod Jiang, 2009 Aug 1)
1100- Patch to support :browse for more commands. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaarca7e1f22010-05-22 15:50:12 +02001101- Patch to improve javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar G, 2010 May 22)
Bram Moolenaara8ffcbb2010-06-21 06:15:46 +02001102- Patch to use return value of 'formatexpr'. (James Vega, 2010 Jun 16)
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001103- Patch for gtk main_loop() to enable GtkFileChooser. (James Vega, 2010 Jun 28)
1104 Same as this one? GTK: file chooser is disabled. Patch by Tim Starling,
1105 2009 Nov 13.
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001106- Patch to make CTRL-L work better with 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase'. (Martin
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001107 Toft, 2010 Jun 8, Jun 16, Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001108- Patch to add diff functionality to 2html.vim. (Christian Brabandt, 2009 Dec
1109 15)
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001110- Win32: patch for better font scaling. (George Reilly, 2009 Mar 26)
1111- Patch for completion of ":find" arguments. (Nazri Ramliy, 2009 Feb 22, 26)
1112 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
1113 Update 2009 Mar 28.
1114- Patch for vertical line at certain column position, 'guidecolumn' option.
1115 (Pankaj Garg, 2009 Apr 14, aka Lone, Apr 15)
1116 Update 2009 May 2, 'margincolumn'
1117 Alternative patch. (2010 Feb 2, Gregor Uhlenheuer, update Apr 18 2010)
1118 Fix by Lech Lorens, Apr 19
1119- Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1120 Patch. (Noel Henson, 2009 Sep 13)
1121- Patch to make synIDattr() work for GUI attributes in Vim without GUI
1122 feature. (Matt Wozniski, 2009 Apr 15)
1123 Patch go make gui highlight settings work in Vim without +gui feature.
1124 (Matt Wozniski, 2009 Mar 27)
1125- Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. (Matt Wozniski)
11266 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
1127 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
1128 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2009 Mar 23.
1129 Comments from Andreas Bernauer 24th, Dominique Pelle 24th
1130 Docs patch by Dominique Pelle, Mar 25
1131 Update 2009 Mar 28.
1132 Fix for invalid memory access. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02001133- Fix for test29. (Milan Vancura, 2010 May 16)
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001134- Disable setting 'encoding' from a modeline? It usually causes problems,
1135 can't do any good. (Patch from Patrick Texier, 2008 Dec 9)
1136- Redraw problem when appending digraph causes line to wrap. (James Vega, 2007
1137 Sep 18) Patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 8.
1138- Patch for colorscheme submenu. (Juergen Kraemer, 2008 Aug 20)
1139- 9 Make it possible to drag a tab page label to another position with the
1140 mouse.
1141 Patch by Paul B. Mahol, 2008 Aug 29.
1142- Mac: Patch to disable antialias. (LC Mi, 2008 Aug 23) Tested on 10.5 and
1143 10.4.
1144- Patch for adding "J" flag to 'cinoptions': placement of jump label. (Manuel
1145 Konig, 2010 Feb 19) Update by Lech Lorens, Feb 22.
Bram Moolenaar0bbabe82010-05-17 20:32:55 +02001146- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) patch by Luis Carvalho, 2008 Sep 5
1147 Patch for Make_ming.mak from Paul Moore (2008 Sep 1)
1148 http://code.google.com/p/vim-iflua/ Download vim72-lua-0.7.patch.gz
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001149Needs some work:
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001150- Have a look at patch to enable screen access from Python. (Marko Mahnic,
1151 2010 Apr 12)
1152- Patch for Python 3 support. (Roland Puntaier, 2009 Sep 22)
1153 Includes changes for omnicompletion.
1154 Needs some more testing.
1155 Update 2010 Apr 20, patch by Andy Kittner, May 16
Bram Moolenaarb230bd52010-05-25 21:02:00 +02001156 Build the MS-Windows version with Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001157- Easier/standard way to disable default plugins.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001158- ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001159 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
1160 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
1161 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
Bram Moolenaar55debbe2010-05-23 23:34:36 +02001162Probably not now:
1163- Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
1164 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
1165 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001166Before (beta) release:
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001167- Add fixes for 7.2 to version7.txt
Bram Moolenaar55debbe2010-05-23 23:34:36 +02001168- Rename vim73 branch to default (hints: Xavier de Gaye, 2010 May 23)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001169
1170
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001171More patches:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001172- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1173- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1174 21)
1175- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1176 patch May 10)
1177- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1178 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1179- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1180 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1181- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1182- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1183- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1184 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1185 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001186- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001187- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1188 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1189- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1190 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1191- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1192 21)
1193- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1194 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1195- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1196 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001197- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1198 Sep 13)
1199- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1200 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001201
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001202
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001203Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000012049 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1205 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1206 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1207 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1208 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1209 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1210 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1211 (Alan Schmitt)
1212 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001213 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1214 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000012159 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001216 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000012178 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012188 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001219 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012207 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1221 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1222 How does this work? Missing comments.
1223- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001224 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001225 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012268 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001227 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012287 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1229 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1230- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1231 for multi-byte characters.
1232- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1233- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1234 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1235 been given values.
1236 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
12378 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001238 with an ESC sequence.
1239 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1240 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1241 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012427 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1243 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1244- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1245 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1246 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
12478 Add functions:
1248 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1249 Update 2004 Sep 10
1250 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1251 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001252 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001253 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001254 charlen() Like strlen() but counting characters instead of
1255 bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001256 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1257 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1258 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1259 (2003 May 13)
1260 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1261 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001262 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1263 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001264 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1265 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1266 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012677 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1268 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1269- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1270 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
12717 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1272 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000012738 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1274 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012757 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
12768 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1277 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
12787 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1279 Kotchan has a patch for it)
12808 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1281 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1282 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
12837 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1284- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1285 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1286 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001287- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1288 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1289- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1290
1291
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001292Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001293- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1294 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012958 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1296 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1297 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1298 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1299 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1300 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013018 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1302 make Vim exit.
13037 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1304 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1305 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
13068 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1307 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1308 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
13096 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1310 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1311 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
13128 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1313 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1314 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1315 names in one buffer???
1316 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1317 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1318 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
13197 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1320 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1321 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001322 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1323 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013247 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1325 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
13267 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
13277 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
13287 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1329 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
13307 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1331 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1332 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1333 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
13347 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
13357 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
13367 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1337 to the match with the tag? Option?
13387 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
13397 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1340 (Sayre).
13417 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1342 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013437 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1344 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1345 match. Nvi can do it too.
13467 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1347 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1348 line 1\ line 2\\
1349 line 2\ line 3\\
1350 . line4/
13516 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1352 the way the shell is started?
13536 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1354 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1355
1356
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001357GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000013589 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013598 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1360 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1361 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000013628 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1363 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1364 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013659 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1366 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1367 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1368 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001369- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1370 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1371 blocked for now.
1372
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001373
1374Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001375- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1376 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000013778 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1378 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013798 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1380 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +000013818 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1382 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1383 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013848 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1385 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1386 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
13878 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1388 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
13897 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1390 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1391 "lucida_console:h8").
13926 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1393 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000013948 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1395 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1396 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013977 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1398 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1399 to use an opaque background in most places?
14008 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1401 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1402 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
14038 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1404 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1405 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
14067 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1407 2004 May 9)
14088 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1409 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1410 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1411 MS-Windows 98?
1412 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1413 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1414 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1415 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014168 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1417 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014188 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1419 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1420 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1421 doesn't work properly.
14228 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1423 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1424 appears in the right position. (Webb)
14259 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1426 button doesn't give popup menu.
1427 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1428 selection.
1429 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1430 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1431 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
14328 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1433 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1434 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1435 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
14368 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1437 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1438 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014397 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1440 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1441 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
14427 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1443 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001444 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014457 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1446 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
14477 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
1448 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
14496 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
14508 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1451 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1452 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
14538 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1454 know which keyboard is being used?
14557 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1456 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1457 area (Koloseike).
14588 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1459 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1460 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1461 the font name).
1462
1463
1464Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000014656 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1466 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1467 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1468 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1469 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014709 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1471 required and it's missing?
14728 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1473 wrong.
14749 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1475 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000014769 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001477 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1478 flag.
14798 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1480 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1481 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
14828 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
14836 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1484 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1485 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1486 the tooltips work though...
14877 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1488 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
14898 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1490 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1491 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1492
1493
1494Athena GUI:
14959 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1496 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1497 through files.
14987 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1499 read long file names. (Schroeder)
15004 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1501 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1502 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1503 problem during a refresh.
15045 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1505 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1506 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1507 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1508 colors as it should.
1509 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1510 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1511
1512
1513Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001514- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015157 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1516 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015178 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1518 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1519 (Phillipps)
1520
1521
1522GUI:
15239 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1524 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
15259 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001526 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001527 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
15289 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1529 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
15308 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1531 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
15328 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1533 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1534 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
15358 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1536 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1537 of where it is processing the output.
1538 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
15398 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1540 doesn't work.
15418 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000015428 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1543 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1544 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015458 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015468 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1547 browse().
15488 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1549 use that code? Or use console dialog.
15508 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1551 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000015527 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1553 - regexp on/off
1554 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1555 when all buffers/directory is used:
1556 - filter for file name
1557 when directory is used:
1558 - subdirectory on/off
1559 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015608 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1561 to avoid problems.
15628 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1563 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1564 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
15658 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1566 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1567 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
15688 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1569 up. Set erase character somehow?
15708 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1571 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1572 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1573 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
15748 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
15757 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1576 visible.
15777 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1578 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
15797 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1580 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
15818 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1582 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
15838 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1584 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1585 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1586 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1587- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
15884 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1589 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1590 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1591
1592
1593MSDOS/DJGPP:
15949 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1595 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1596 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
15978 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1598 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
15999 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001600 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1601 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016029 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1603 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1604 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1605 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
16069 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1607 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1608 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1609 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1610 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1611 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1612 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1613 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1614 key code. Use a translation table?
16159 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1616 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
16178 Use DJGPP 2.03.
16188 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1619 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
16208 setlocale() is bogus.
16218 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1622 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1623 Windows 95 system!
16248 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000016257 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001626 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
16277 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1628 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1629 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
16308 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1631 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
16327 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1633 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1634 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1635 "[New file]".
16367 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1637 that is supported?
16388 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
16398 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1640 Briscoe)
1641
1642
1643MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
16448 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1645 gen_expand_wildcards().
16468 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1647 Wagner.
16488 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
16498 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1650 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000016518 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1652 a good fallback, thus use:
1653 $HOME
1654 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
1655 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1656 $USERPROFILE
1657 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1658 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
1659 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
1660 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016618 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1662 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
16638 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1664 Should work like in the GUI version.
16658 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1666 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
16678 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1668 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
16698 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1670 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1671 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016728 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1673 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1674 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1675
1676
1677Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020016788 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001679 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1680 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
16818 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1682 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1683
1684
1685Win32 console:
16869 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1687 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1688 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1689 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1690 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1691 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1692 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1693 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1694 and the file is not saved.
1695 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1696 long name.
16978 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1698 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
16997 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1700 besides the console.
17018 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
17029 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1703 <C-S-i>?
17049 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1705 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
17068 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1707 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017087 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1709 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1710 exiting.
1711
1712
1713Amiga:
17148 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1715 sequences.
17169 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1717 backslashes in result.
17188 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1719 all options, using white space separation.
1720
1721
1722Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001723- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000017247 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1725 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1726 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017277 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1728 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1729 (Jack)
1730 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
17318 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1732 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
17338 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017348 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1735 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017369 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1737 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
17388 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
17398 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
17408 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
17418 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
17429 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1743 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
17449 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1745 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
17469 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1747 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
17489 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
17498 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
17508 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1751
1752
1753"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001754- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1755 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001756- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1757 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001758- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
1759 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
1760 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
1761 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
1762 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
1763 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
1764 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000017659 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1766 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000017679 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001768 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
1769 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017708 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1771 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1772 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001773 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017748 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1775 error number, it's not a regular error message.
17767 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1777 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
17788 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1779 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1780 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017817 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1782 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001783- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1784 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017858 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1786 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1787 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1788 using the horizontal scrollbar.
17897 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1790 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1791 invocations belong together.
17928 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1793 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
17948 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1795 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1796 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1797 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1798 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000017998 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000018008 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1801 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1802 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000018036 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018048 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1805 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
18067 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1807 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018087 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1809 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1810 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1811 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
18128 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1813 defined.
18147 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1815 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1816 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
18177 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1818 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1819 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
18207 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1821 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018227 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1823 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018249 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1825 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1826 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1827 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1828 script can be called.
18298 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1830 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1831 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018328 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1833 CTRL-C.
18347 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1835 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1836 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1837 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1838 won't work for GTK anyway.
18398 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1840 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018418 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001842 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1843 configurable?
18448 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
18459 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1846 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1847 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018488 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1849 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000018508 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1851 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018528 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1853 always written, even when the original file already exists.
18547 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1855 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
18569 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1857 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1858 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018597 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018608 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1861 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1862 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000018638 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1864 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001865 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1866 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018678 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1868 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
18699 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1870 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1871 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001872 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018737 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1874 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018757 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1876 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1877 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1878 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018798 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001880 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1881 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1882 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1883 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001884 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1885 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001886 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001887 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001888 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1889 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1890 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1891 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1892 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
18938 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1894 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
18959 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1896 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1897 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018988 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1899 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
19008 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1901 in lines that don't extend into the block?
19028 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1903 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1904 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
19058 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1906 'linebreak'.
19078 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1908 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1909 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019109 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1911 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1912 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1913 'magic' in history. (Margo)
19149 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1915 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
19169 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1917 isn't updated).
19189 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
19199 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1920 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1921 cause another redraw, etc.
19228 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1923 must escape special characters in the pattern.
19248 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1925 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1926 ":w!!" for that.
1927 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1928 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00001929 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019307 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1931 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1932 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1933 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1934 clipboard)
19357 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1936 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1937 Waggoner)
19388 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1939 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1940 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000019416 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1942 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1943 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019448 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1945 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
19468 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1947 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1948 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000019498 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019508 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1951 (e.g., ":w").
19528 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1953 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
19548 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1955 for ">>".
19568 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1957 script in do_cmdline().
19588 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1959 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1960 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1961 changes.
19628 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1963 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
19648 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1965 check for file marks. This can be slow.
19667 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1967 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1968 needed.
1969 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
19708 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1971 to skip catch_signals()?
19729 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1973 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1974 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1975 text?
19768 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1977 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
19788 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1979 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
19809 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1981 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1982 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1983 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1984 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
19857 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1986 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1987 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1988 in the list?
19898 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1990 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1991 instead of on button down.
19928 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
19939 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1994 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001995 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1996 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019978 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1998 character is typed.
19998 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2000 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
20018 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2002 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
20038 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2004 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2005 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2006 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2007 cygwin bash.
20087 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2009 Remember flags for backreferences.
20107 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2011 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
20127 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2013 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
20148 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2015 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
20167 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2017 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020187 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2019 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2020 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
20217 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2022 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
20238 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2024 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2025 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
20267 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2027 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002028
2029
2030I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
20319 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2032 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2033 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002034
2035
2036Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002037- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2038 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2039 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002040- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2041 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2042 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2043 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2044 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2045 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
2046 (2008 Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002047- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2048 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002049 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002050 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2051 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2052 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002053- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2054 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2055 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2056 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2057 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2058- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2059 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2060 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2061- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2062 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002063- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002064- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2065 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2066 character gets the highlighting.
2067- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2068 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2069- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2070 (Jennings)
2071- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2072- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2073 errors. How do we get the rest?
2074- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002075- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002076 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2077- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2078 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2079 first?
2080- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2081 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2082- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2083 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2084 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2085- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2086 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2087 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2088 (Benzinger).
2089- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2090 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2091 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2092- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2093 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2094- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2095 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2096- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2097 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2098 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2099 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2100 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2101 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2102- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2103 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2104 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
2105- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2106 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2107 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2108- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2109 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2110- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2111 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2112- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2113 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2114- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2115 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2116- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2117 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2118 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2119 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2120 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2121- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2122 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2123 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2124- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2125 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2126 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002127- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2128 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 +00002129- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2130 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2131 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2132 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2133 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2134- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2135 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2136
2137--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2138 *extensions-improvements*
2139
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002140Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2141- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2142 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2143 calling a function.
2144 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2145 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002146- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2147 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2148- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2149 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2150 http://clewn.sf.net.
2151 And the idevim plugin/script.
2152 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2153 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2154 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2155 other window.
2156 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2157 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2158 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2159 in terminal mode.
2160- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2161 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2162 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2163 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2164 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2165 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002166 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002167- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2168 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2169 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002170- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2171 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002172- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2173 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2174 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021758 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2176 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2177 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2178 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002179- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2180 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002181
2182
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002183Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021848 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2185 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000021868 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2187 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000021888 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2189 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021908 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021917 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
21929 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2193 - change to cursor position and curswant
2194 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2195 - how it works for folded lines
2196 - how it works with multi-byte characters
21979 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2198 work too.
21998 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2200 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2201 text.
22028 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
22037 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2204 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
22057 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2206 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002207 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002208- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2209
2210
2211Help:
2212- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2213 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2214- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2215 to the other matches.
2216- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2217- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2218- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2219 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2220 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2221 default contents.
2222- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2223 height for the help window (and other windows).
2224- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2225- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2226- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2227
2228
2229User Friendlier:
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +000022308 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
2231 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022328 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2233 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2234 Briscoe)
22358 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
22368 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2237 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2238 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
22398 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2240 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2241- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2242 ":mkplugin <file>"?
22438 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2244 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2245 'runtimepath'.
2246 " Vim plugin
2247 <main plugin code>
2248 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2249 <plugin docs>
2250- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
22519 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2252 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2253 item?).
2254 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022558 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
22567 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000022577 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2258 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2259 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000022608 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2261 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2262 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2263 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002264
2265
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002266Tab pages:
22679 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022687 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2269 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022708 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000022718 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022728 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
22738 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
22747 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022757 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002276 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022777 Add local variables for each tab page?
22788 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2279 tab pages.
22807 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022817 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2282 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002283
2284
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002285Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002286- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2287 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2288 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2289 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002290- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2291 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2292- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2293 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2294 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2295- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2296 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002297- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2298 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2299 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002300- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2301 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2302 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002303- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2304 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002305- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002306 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2307 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000023088 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2309 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
23108 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2311 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
23128 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2313 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002314 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002315 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2316 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2317 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2318 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002319- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2320 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002321- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002322- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2323 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002324- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002325 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002326- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002327 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002328- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2329 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002330- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2331 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2332- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002333 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002334 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2335 in the affix file separately.
2336 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002337 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002338 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2339 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2340 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2341- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2342 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2343 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2344 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2345 Alternative:
2346 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2347 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2348 affix which is required.
2349- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002350 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002351- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2352 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2353 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002354- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2355 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002356- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2357 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2358- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023598 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2360 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2361 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2362 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002363- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2364 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2365 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2366 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023678 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2368 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023698 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
23708 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2371 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023727 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
23738 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2374 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2375 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2376 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002377
2378
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002379Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023809 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2381 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023828 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2383 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2384 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002385 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2386 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023877 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2388 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2389 location.
2390
2391
2392Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002393 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2394 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023958 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2396 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000023978 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023989 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2399 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000024007 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024018 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2402 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2403 user aware of this?
24048 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2405 commands skip over a closed fold.
24068 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
24078 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024087 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002409- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2410 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2411 missing line goes unnoticed.
2412 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002413- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2414 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2415 smoother?
2416- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2417 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002418- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2419 file can contain:
2420 args version.c main.c
2421 edit version.c
2422 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002423- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002424- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2425 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002426- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2427 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002428- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2429 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002430- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000024318 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002432 searches.
2433
2434
2435Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002436- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2437 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2438 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2439 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024409 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2441 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2442 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2443 byte).
24448 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2445 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2446 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2447 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2448 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2449 item.
24508 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002451 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2452 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024538 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2454 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002455 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002456 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024578 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2458 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024598 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2460 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2461 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024627 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2463 so that the user can fix the problem.
24648 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2465 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024669 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
24678 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024688 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
24698 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024707 Searching and composing characters:
2471 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2472 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2473 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2474 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2475 characters can be manipulated.
2476 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2477 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024788 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
24798 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
24808 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2481 characters.
24828 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
24838 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2484 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
24857 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2486 'display' option to specify this.
24877 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2488 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2489- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2490 fontselector somehow.
2491- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2492 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2493- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2494 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2495- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2496 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2497 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2498 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2499 if a font exists?
2500- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00002501 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002502- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2503 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
25047 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2505 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002506- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2507 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2508 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2509 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002510- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2511 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2512 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2513- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2514 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2515 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2516 But it's very complicated...
2517
2518
2519Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000025207 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002521- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2522- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2523 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002524- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2525 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002526- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2527- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2528 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002529- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2530 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002531- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2532 units as for the margins.
2533- Support right-to-left text?
25348 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2535 color.
2536
2537
2538Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025398 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2540 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
25418 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2542 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
25438 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2544 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000025457 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2546 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025478 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2548 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2549 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025507 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2551 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2552 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025538 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
25549 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2555 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025567 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2557 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000025587 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2559 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025608 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2561 change this for each release.
25628 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2563 pattern, but not in the body.
25648 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2565 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2566 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025678 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
25688 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2569 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2570 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2571 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
25728 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2573 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
25748 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2575 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002576 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025778 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
25788 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2579 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2580 used.
25818 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2582 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
25838 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2584 re-insert the [] if possible.
25858 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2586 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000025878 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2588 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2589 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2590 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2591 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025928 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2593 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
25948 Support for deleting syntax items:
2595 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2596 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2597 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
25988 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2599 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2600 a '<'. (Fleiner)
26017 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2602 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2603 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
26047 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2605 detected.
26068 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002607 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026088 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2609 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026108 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
26118 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
26127 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2613 ":mkvimrc".
26148 Improve c.vim:
2615 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2616 "c_strict_ansi".
2617 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
26188 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2619 current line while in Insert mode.
26208 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2621 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
26228 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2623 display position.
26248 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2625 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2626 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
26278 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2628 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2629 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026308 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2631 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2632 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000026337 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2634 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2635 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2636 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2637 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026387 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2639 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2640 E.g. for this html:
2641 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
26427 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2643 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2644 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
26457 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
26467 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2647 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026488 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
26498 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026507 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2651 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2652 completion?
26538 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2654 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
26557 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2656 select one of the sets.
26578 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2658 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2659 2, etc.
26608 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2661 highlighting (for "." command).
26628 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2663 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
26648 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
26657 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2666 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
26676 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2668 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2669- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2670 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2671- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002672- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2673 (for comment blocks).
2674- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2675 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2676 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2677 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2678 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2679 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2680 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2681 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2682 (Campbell)
2683 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2684 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
26857 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2686 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
26877 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2688 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2689 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
26907 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2691 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2692 messages. And external commands?
26938 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2694 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
26957 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2696 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2697
2698
2699Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027008 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2701 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027027 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2703 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2704 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027058 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2706 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002707- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2708 2006 Dec 11.
2709- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000027107 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2711 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027128 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
27138 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2714 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2715 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2716 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2717 nested packages?
2718 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2719 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2720 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027217 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2722 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2723 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2724 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2725 autocommand.
2726 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2727 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2728 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2729 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027307 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2731 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027326 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2733 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027348 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002735 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2736 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2737 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2738 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2739 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2740 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2741 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00002742 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2743 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2744 3 2002
2745 Only add this when also implemented for
2746 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2747 be used.
2748 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00002749 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2750 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2751 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2752 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2753 File.Open..." argument.
2754 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2755 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2756 with properties instead.
2757 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2758 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2759 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002760 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002761 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002762 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002763 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002764 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002765 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002766 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
2767 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002768 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2769 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002770 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002771 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2772 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002773 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2774 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2775 to allow the library to execute a command or
2776 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027777 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2778 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
27798 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2780 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027818 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2782 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027838 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027847 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2785 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
27866 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027878 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2788 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027898 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2790 option or environment variable.
27918 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027928 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002793 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027947 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2795 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027968 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2797 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
27988 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
27998 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2800 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2801 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2802 charwise({expr}).
28037 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2804 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2805 buffer for this?
2806 result = scratch(string, command)
2807 result = apply(string, command)
2808 result = execute(string, command)
2809 "command" would use <> notation.
2810 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
28117 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
28127 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2813 option for the search path. (Sekera)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002814
2815
2816Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000028176 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2818 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2819 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2820 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2821 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2822 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2823 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002824
2825
2826Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000028277 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
2828 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
28298 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
2830 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
2831 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
2832 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02002833 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028348 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2835 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2836 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028378 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
28389 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
28398 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
28407 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2841 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
28428 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2843 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2844 when starting up in a color terminal.
28458 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2846 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028478 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2848 function be improved?
28498 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2850 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2851 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2852 this be improved?
28538 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2854 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028557 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2856 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028577 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2858 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
28597 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2860 lot of abbreviations).
28617 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
28627 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2863 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2864 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2865 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2866 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2867 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2868 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
28698 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2870 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2871 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2872 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
28738 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2874 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2875 using strcmp() too often?
28767 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2877 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2878 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2879 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2880 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2881 the two blocks to the memfile block.
28827 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2883 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2884 with an argument that can be messed with.
2885 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2886 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
28877 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2888- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
28898 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2890 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2891- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2892 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2893- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2894- Do profiling on:
2895 - :g/pat/normal cmd
2896 - 1000ii<Esc>
2897 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2898 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2899 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2900 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2901 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2902 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002903 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029047 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2905 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2906 changed).
2907 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2908 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2909- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2910- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2911 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2912- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2913 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2914 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2915- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2916 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2917- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2918- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2919 cursor is right of the screen.
29208 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2921 CTRL-C (it's slow).
2922
2923
2924Code size:
29258 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2926- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2927 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
29288 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
29298 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2930 it.
29317 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2932 left out.
29338 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2934 can be removed.
29358 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2936
2937
2938Messages:
29398 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2940 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
29418 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2942 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
29438 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2944 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002945- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2946 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2947- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029488 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2949 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029509 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2951 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2952 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2953 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2954 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029558 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2956 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
29578 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2958 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2959 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2960 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2961 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2962 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002963- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002964 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029658 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2966 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2967 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2968 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2969 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2970 error messages, printing text, etc.
29718 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2972 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2973 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2974
2975
2976Screen updating:
29777 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2978 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2979 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2980- screen_line():
2981 - insert/delete character stuff.
2982 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2983- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2984 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2985- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2986 waiting for a character.
29878 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2988 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2989 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
29907 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002991
2992
2993Scrolling:
29948 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
29956 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2996- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2997 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2998 windows.
29997 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3000 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3001 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3002- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3003 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3004 (Goldfarb)
3005- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3006 bound windows.
3007- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3008 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003009- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003010- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3011 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3012 of lines but not with a single line).
3013
3014
3015Autoconf:
30168 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
30178 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3018 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3019- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3020 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3021- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3022- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3023- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3024
3025
3026Perl interface:
30278 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030287 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
30297 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
30306 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3031
3032
3033Shared libraries:
30346 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3035 :libload internal-name libname
3036 :libunload internal-name
3037 :liblist
3038 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3039 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3040 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
30416 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3042
3043
3044Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000030459 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3046 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3047 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3048 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3049 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000030508 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3051 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3052 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
3053 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originall (Erik Falor, 2008
3054 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000030558 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3056 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3057 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003058 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3059 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3060 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000030617 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3062 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3063 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030648 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
30658 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3066 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030677 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3068 window for each tag.
30697 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
30707 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3071 bottom" search message.
30727 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3073 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3074 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003075- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3076- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003077- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3078 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3079 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030807 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3081 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3082 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3083 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
30847 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3085 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3086 :tagargs clear
3087 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3088 matching).
30897 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3090 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3091 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3092 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
30937 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3094 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
30957 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3096 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3097 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003098
3099
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003100Win32 GUI:
31018 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3102 the message and input?
31037 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3104 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3105 dynamically?
31067 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3107 (Mike McCollister)
31088 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3109 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3110 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3111 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3112 common part of the path.
31138 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
31148 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3115 gettext and menus work.
31168 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3117 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003118 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003119 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
31208 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3121 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
31228 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3123 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
31247 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3125 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
31267 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
31277 <Esc> should close a dialog.
31287 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3129 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3130 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3131 prompts.
31327 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3133 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3134 the file added into an already running Vim.
31357 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3136 functions to find the window title.
3137
3138
3139GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031408 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
3141- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3142 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
31437 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
31448 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
31456 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
31468 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3147 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
31489 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
31497 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
31508 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3151 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
31528 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3153 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3154 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
31558 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3156 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
31578 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3158 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3159 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3160 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031617 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
31628 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3163 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000031647 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3165 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3166 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031678 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
31688 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003169 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031708 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
31718 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
31728 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3173 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3174 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
31757 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3176 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3177 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
31787 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3179 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
31807 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3181 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3182 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3183 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
31847 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3185 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
31867 Should support multi-column menus.
3187- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3188 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3189- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
31908 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
31916 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3192 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
31937 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
31947 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3195 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3196 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
31977 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
31988 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3199 name can be chosen free.
32007 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3201 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
32026 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3203 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3204 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3205 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3206 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3207 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3208 things.
32097 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3210 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032117 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003212 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003213- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3214 where it was started from?
32157 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3216
3217
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003218Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003219- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010032208 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3221 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3222 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3223 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
32248 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3225 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000032267 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3227 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3228 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3229 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032308 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
3231 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000032327 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032338 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3234 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032358 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3236 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3237 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032387 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3239 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3240 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032418 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3242 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3243 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032447 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3245 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032468 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3247 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032488 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032496 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3250 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032517 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032527 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
3253 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
3254 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
3255 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
32565 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3257 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3258 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
32597 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3260 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3261 file.
32628 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3263 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3264 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003265- Add events to autocommands:
3266 Error - When an error happens
3267 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003268 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003269 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3270 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003271 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003272 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003273 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3274 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003275 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003276 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003277 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003278 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3279 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3280 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3281 window title)
3282 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
3283 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
3284 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
3285 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
3286 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
3287 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
3288 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
3289 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3290 the char.
3291 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3292 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3293 file from CVS).
3294 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3295 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3296 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3297 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3298 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3299 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003300 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3301 changes.
3302 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3303 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003304- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003305 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003306 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003307 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3308 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3309 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3310 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3311 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3312
3313
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003314Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003315- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3316 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003317- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3318 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3319 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3320 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3321 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003322- Ideas from others:
3323 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3324 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3325 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3326 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3327 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3328 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3329 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3330 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3331 Uses Perl for C++.
3332 Uses ctags to find the info:
3333 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3334 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3335 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3336 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3337 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3338 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003339 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003340 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3341- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3342
3343
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003344Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003345- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000033467 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3347 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033487 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3349 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3350 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033518 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3352 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
33539 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3354 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3355 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033568 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3357 - ignore/match case
3358 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033598 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3360 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3361 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3362 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3363 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3364 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033658 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000033667 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3367 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033688 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3369 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3370 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3371 Should work for C++ and Java.
3372 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
33737 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
33747 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3375 instead of words.
33768 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
33778 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3378 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
33798 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3380 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003381- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3382 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003383- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3384 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3385 wildcards in the file name)?
3386- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3387- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3388- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3389 be in another file).
3390- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3391- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3392- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3393 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3394- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3395- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3396- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003397- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3398
3399
3400Command line editing:
34017 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3402 line.
34038 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3404 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3405 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3406- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3407 lines wraps to start of line).
3408- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3409 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3410 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3411 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3412 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3413 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3414 cmdwin does now already.
3415 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3416 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3417 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3418 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3419 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3420 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3421 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3422 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3423 Problems:
3424 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3425 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3426 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3427 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3428 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3429 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3430 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3431 character in first column?
3432 - Implementation ideas:
3433 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3434 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3435 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3436 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3437 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3438 Mode.
3439
3440
3441Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034428 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034438 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
34448 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3445 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
34468 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3447 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034488 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3449 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034507 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3451 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003452- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3453- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3454 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034558 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3456 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
34577 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3458 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3459- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3460 identifiers (Webb).
34618 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3462 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
34637 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3464 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3465- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3466 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3467- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3468 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3469 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003470
3471
3472Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000034739 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3474 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3475 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003476- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3477 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3478 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3479 completely resulted from one mapping.
3480- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3481 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3482
3483
3484Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000034859 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3486 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3487 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034888 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3489 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3490 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3491 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3492 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034938 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3494 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3495 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034967 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3497 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003498- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034997 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3500 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3501- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3502 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3503 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3504 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3505 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3506 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3507- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3508 Normal mode.
3509- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3510 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3511 are used.
3512- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3513- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3514- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3515
3516
3517'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035189 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3519 cout << "a"
3520 << ") :"
3521 << "y";
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035229 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben
3523 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035248 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035258 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3526 long_type foo =
3527 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035288 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3529 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003530 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035318 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3532 func(
3533 new String[] {
3534 "asdf",
3535 "asdf"
3536 }
3537 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035388 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3539 (Chow Loong Jin)
3540 namespace {
3541 int
3542 func(int arg) {
3543 }
3544 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035456 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3546 func( arg1
3547 , arg2
3548 , arg3
3549 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000035507 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003551 func(
3552 int x) // indent like "(4"
3553 {
3554 if (a
3555 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035569 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3557 if (a)
3558 {
3559 if (b)
3560 {
3561 // {
3562 }
3563 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003564 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3565 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3566 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003567- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003568 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
35697 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3570- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3571 line).
3572- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3573- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3574 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
35757 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3576- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3577 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3578- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3579 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3580- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3581- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3582 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
35838 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3584 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3585 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3586- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3587- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3588 lines start with "\item".
3589- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3590 /* here is a comment that
3591 is just autoindented, and
3592 nothing else */
3593- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
35947 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3595 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3596 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003597 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3598 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003599
3600
3601Java:
36028 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3603 Odendahl?
36048 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3605 "[i" commands and friends.
3606- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3607 (Jason)
3608- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3609 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3610
3611
3612'comments':
36138 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3614 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3615 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3616 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003617 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3618 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036197 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3620 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
36217 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
36226 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3623 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3624 regexp is used.
36258 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3626 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3627
3628
3629Virtual edit:
36308 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036317 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3632
3633
3634Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036358 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036368 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000036378 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003638 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000036398 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3640 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003641 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3642 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000036438 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036447 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3645 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036468 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3647 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036488 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3649 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3650 the end of the line or before a ".".
36517 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3652 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
36537 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3654 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036556 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
36565 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3657 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3658 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3659 cursor is on.
3660
3661
3662Select mode:
36638 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3664 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
36657 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3666 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
36677 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3668 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3669 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3670 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3671 normal_cmd().
3672 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3673 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3674
3675
3676Visual mode:
3677- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3678 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3679 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003680- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3681 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3682 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036838 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003684 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003685 where needed.
36867 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3687 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
36887 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3689 of each selected line.
36908 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
36918 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3692 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3693 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
36948 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3695 Ben Godfrey)
36967 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3697 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
36987 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3699 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
37007 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3701 Young is working on this)
37027 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003703 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003704 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
37058 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3706 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
37077 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3708 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3709 option!
37107 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3711 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3712 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3713 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3714 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3715 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3716 without changing the column.
37176 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037187 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3719 current buffer.
37207 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
37216 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3722 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
37236 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037246 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003725 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003726 or other special character.
37276 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3728
3729
3730More advanced repeating commands:
3731- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037327 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003733 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003734- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003735- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003736 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3737 "y." will repeat last yank.
3738 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3739 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3740 and/or pick an older command.
3741- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3742
3743
3744Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037458 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3746 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3747 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
37488 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
37497 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3750 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037518 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3752 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
37538 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000037547 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037558 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3756 entering search strings.
37578 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3758 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3759 not the <Space>.
37608 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
37618 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3762 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037638 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3764 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3765 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
37667 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
37677 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003768 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003769 option.
37707 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3771 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
37727 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3773 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3774 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037756 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3776 abbreviations are to be used.
3777- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3778 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3779 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003780- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3781 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3782 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3783 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3784 Or implicit:
3785 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003786- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3787- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3788 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3789 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003790- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3791 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3792- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3793 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3794- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3795 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
37966 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3797 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3798 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3799 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003800- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3801 non-replace Insert mode?
3802- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003803- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3804- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3805 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3806- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003807 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003808- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3809 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3810- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3811- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3812 ":freekeys".
3813- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3814
3815
3816Incsearch:
3817- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3818- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3819 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3820 up every time.
3821- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3822 folds when going to another line.
3823- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3824 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3825 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3826 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3827- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3828 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3829
3830
3831Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000038328 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00003833 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003834 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003835 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003836 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038379 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
3838 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000038398 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3840 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3841 Perl does it this way:
3842 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3843 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3844 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3845 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038468 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3847 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3848 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038498 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
3850 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
3851 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000038527 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3853 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038548 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3855 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038567 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3858 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3859 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
38607 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3861 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038627 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003863 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038647 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3865 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038668 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3867 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
38688 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3869 line.
38707 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3871 example.
38728 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3873 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3874- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3875 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3876 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3877 Alternative: use matchit.vim
38788 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
38798 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3880 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3881 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
38827 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3883 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000038847 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3885 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038868 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3887 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038888 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3889 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038908 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3891 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3892 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3893 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003894- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3895 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003896- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3897 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3898- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3899 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3900 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3901 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039028 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3903 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003904- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3905 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039068 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3907 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3908 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003909- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3910 i ignore case
3911 I use case
3912 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3913 v use Vi regexp syntax
3914 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3915 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3916 Perl uses these too:
3917 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3918 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3919 o compile only once (Perl only)
3920 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3921 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3922 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3923 following command.
3924 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3925- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3926 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3927 for search string)?
39287 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3929 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3930- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3931 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3932- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3933 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3934- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3935- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003936 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003937 a for the next file in the argument list
3938 f for file in the buffer list
3939 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003940 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3941 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003942 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3943 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3944- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039457 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003946 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039477 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3948 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3949 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3950 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
39516 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3952 effects.
39537 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3954 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3955 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000039567 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003957 Also ":dselect".
3958
3959
3960Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039619 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3962 not.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039638 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3964 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3965 timestamp?
3966 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3967 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039688 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3969 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3970 was changed outside of Vim.
3971 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3972 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039738 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3974 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003975- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3976 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003977- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3978 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3979 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
39808 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3981 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3982 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3983 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
39848 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3985 only remember the lines that really changed.
39867 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3987 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3988 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3989 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003990- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3991 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3992- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3993 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3994- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3995 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3996 [-99].
3997- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
3998- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003999- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4000 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4001
4002
4003Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040047 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4005 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4006 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4007 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
40088 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4009 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
40108 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4011 inode too.
40127 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004013 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4014 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040157 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4016 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4017- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4018 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4019- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4020 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
40217 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4022 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
40237 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4024 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
40258 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040268 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004027 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
40287 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4029 internal use and for when executing an external program?
4030
4031
4032Swap (.swp) files:
40338 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4034 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4035 there are short file name problems.
40368 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4037 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
40388 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
40398 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004040 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004041 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4042 file the same as the actual file?
4043 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040447 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4045 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
40467 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004047 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004048 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4049 enough room.
40507 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4051 or /var/preserve.
4052- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4053 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4054- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4055 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4056- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4057 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4058 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4059 cached list of which line is where.
4060
4061
4062Viminfo:
40637 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4064 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4065 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000040668 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4067 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4068 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040698 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4070 name. (Schild)
40718 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
40728 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040738 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040748 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4075 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4076 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4077 this?
40787 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
40797 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4080 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
40816 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4082 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4083 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4084- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4085 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4086
4087
4088Modelines:
40898 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4090 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4091 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004092- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4093 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4094 'shiftwidth'.
4095- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4096 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004097- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4098 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4099 modeline setting.
4100- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4101 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4102- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4103 .cpp files.
4104- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4105 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4106- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4107 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4108
4109
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004110Sessions:
41118 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4112 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
41137 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4114 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041158 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4116 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041178 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4118 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4119 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000041207 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4121 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000041227 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004123
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004124
4125Options:
41267 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4127 restore it after the command has executed.
41287 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
4129 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
4130 side effect.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041318 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4132 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4133 also be supported.
41348 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4135 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4136 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
41377 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
41387 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4139 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004140
4141
4142External commands:
41438 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4144 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
41454 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4146 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4147 -f).
41484 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
41494 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4150 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
41514 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4152
4153
4154Multiple Windows:
41557 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
41568 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4157 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
41587 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4159 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4160 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041617 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4162 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000041637 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4164 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041656 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4166 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004167 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004168 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
41697 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4170 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4171 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4172 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4173- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4174 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4175 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4176 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4177
4178
4179Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041808 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041818 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4182 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000041838 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 +000041848 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4185 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
41868 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4187 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4188 the mark was set.
41897 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4190 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4191 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4192 ":browse marks"?
41936 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041947 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4195 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
41967 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4197 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
41987 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4199 command).
42007 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4201 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4202 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4203 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
42045 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4205 mappings.
42066 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4207 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4208 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4209
4210
4211Digraphs:
42127 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
4213 Also the keymap?
4214- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
4215 below/above).
4216- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4217 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000042188 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042197 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4220 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4221
4222
4223Writing files:
4224- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4225 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4226 shortname conversion.
42278 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
42288 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4229 file.
42308 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4231 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4232 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
42337 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
4234 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
42356 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4236 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
42376 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4238 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
42396 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4240 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042418 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004242 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
42437 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4244 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
42457 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4246 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4247 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4248 waiting for a character to be typed).
42498 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4250 line of the window, like "[time]".
4251 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4252 Automatic and/or with a command.
4253
4254
4255Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000042568 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4257 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042588 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004259 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4260- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4261- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
42628 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4263 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004264- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004265 :s///N substitutes N times.
4266- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4267 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4268 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
42697 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4270 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4271 last line column 5.
42725 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4273 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4274 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4275 (Stanislav Sitar)
4276
4277
4278Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042798 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
42807 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
42818 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4282 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4283 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004284- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4285- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4286 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4287- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4288- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4289
4290
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004291Argument list:
42926 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4293 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4294 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
42956 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4296
4297
4298Registers:
42998 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
43008 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4301 around in windows.
43028 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4303 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4304 for every line.
43056 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4306 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4307 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4308- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4309 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4310- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4311 leader when line wraps?
4312- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4313 line in the range.
4314- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4315 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
43168 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4317 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004318
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004319
4320Debug mode:
43217 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
43228 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000043238 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043247 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004325 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4326 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4327 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043287 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
43297 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4330
4331
4332Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043338 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
4334 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000043357 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4336 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4337 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4338 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4339 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4340 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4341 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004342 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000043437 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4344 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000043457 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4346 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043478 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4348 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043497 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4350 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4351 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004352- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004353 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043547 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4355 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043567 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4357 window as a buffer-tab selection.
43588 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043596 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
43607 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4361 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4362 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004363 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4364 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043657 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4366 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
43678 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4368 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043696 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043708 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4371 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4372 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4373 in this Vim.
43748 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004375 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043768 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4377 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4378 have it apply to the following command.
43798 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4380 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4381 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4382 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043837 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4384 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043857 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4386 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4387 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4388 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043896 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
43908 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
43919 Support ACLs on more systems.
43927 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4393 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043947 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4395 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4396 (truncated to fit in the space).
43977 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
43988 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
43998 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4400 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000044017 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004402 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
44037 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4404 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044057 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044067 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
44077 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044088 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
44098 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4410 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4411 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4412 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
44138 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
44146 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4415 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004416 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044178 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044188 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4419 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4420 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4421 does something like this. (Shah)
44227 Use growarray for replace stack.
44237 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4424 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
44253 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044267 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4427 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004428- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4429- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4430- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4431- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
44327 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4433 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4434- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4435 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
4436- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
4437- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4438 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4439- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4440 call "play newbeep.au").
4441- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4442 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4443 (Bhatt).
4444- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4445 blockwise registers).
4446- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4447 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4448- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4449 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4450 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4451 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004452- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044537 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4454 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4455- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4456 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4457 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4458 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4459 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044608 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4461 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044628 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4463 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4464 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4465 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4466 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4467- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004468- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044697 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4470 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4471- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4472 not in column 1.
44736 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4474 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
44757 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4476- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004477- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004478 :redir #> bufname
4479 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004480- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4481 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004482- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4483 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4484 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
44856 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4486 console? (Klaus Hast)
4487- Add :delcr command:
4488 *:delcr*
4489 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4490 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4491 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4492 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4493 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4494 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4495- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4496- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4497 characters from 'isprint'.
4498- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4499- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4500 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4501- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4502 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4503 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4504- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4505- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4506 Nvi).
4507- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4508 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
45097 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4510- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4511 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
45126 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4513- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4514 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4515 macro).
4516- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004517- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4518 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4519- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
45208 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
4521- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
4522- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4523- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4524- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4525 if it is not the first or last window.
4526- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4527 there is one) instead of the file itself.
45287 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4529 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4530 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4531- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4532- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004533 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004534 many percent down the windows).
4535- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4536 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4537 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4538- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4539 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4540- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4541 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4542- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4543- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4544- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4545 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045468 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4547 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4548 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4549 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4550 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004551- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4552 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4553- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004554 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4555- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004556 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4557 (Webb).
4558- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004559 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004560- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4561 hex codes like 0xff).
4562- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4563 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4564 the last TYPED command.
4565- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4566- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4567- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4568 should also work?
4569- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
45708 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4571 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4572 name.
4573- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4574 trailing '.'.
4575- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4576 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4577 find_file_in_path().
4578- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4579 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4580- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4581- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4582 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4583- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004584 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004585- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4586 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4587 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004588- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004589 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4590- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4591- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4592- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4593 to the minimal size.
4594- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4595- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4596- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4597- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4598- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
4599- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
4600- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
4601 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
4602- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4603 entered)?
4604- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4605 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004606- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004607- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4608- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4609- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4610- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4611- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4612 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004613- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046148 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4615 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4616 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4617 or in octal.
46187 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4619 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004620- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004621 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4622- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4623- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4624 insert line command).
4625- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4626- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4627- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4628- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4629- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4630 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004631- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004632 yet.
4633- Implement 'redraw' option.
4634- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4635 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046367 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4637 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004638 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4639 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046408 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4641 do it.
4642- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4643- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4644 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4645- Add text justification option.
4646- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4647- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4648 off".
4649- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4650- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4651- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004652 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004653- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004654- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004655- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4656- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4657 commands.
4658- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4659- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4660- :table command (Webb)
4661- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004662- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4663- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4664- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4665- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4666- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4667 (Demirel).
4668- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4669- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4670 for use in macro's and the like.
4671- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004672 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004673- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004674 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4675- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4676 read-only mode).
4677- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004678 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004679 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4680- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4681 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004682- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004683 mkopttab to make option table?
4684- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4685 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4686- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4687 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004688- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004689 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4690- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4691 cursor?
4692- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4693- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
46945 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4695 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046968 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4697 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4698 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4699 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4700 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047018 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4702 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4703 (Netherton)
47046 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4705 space after "(", for example.
47065 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4707 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4708 (Servatius Brandt)
4709
4710
4711From Elvis:
4712- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4713- Add ":alias" command.
4714- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4715- Search patterns:
4716 \@ match word under cursor.
4717 but do:
4718 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4719 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
47208 ":window" command:
4721 :win + next window (up)
4722 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4723 :win - previous window (down)
4724 :win -- idem, wrapping
4725 :win nr to window number "nr"
4726 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
47277 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4728 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4729
4730
4731From Nvi:
4732- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4733- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4734- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
47358 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4736- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
47376 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4738 :bg :hide
4739 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4740 :dis b :ls
4741 :Edit fname :split fname
4742 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4743 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4744 :Previous :sprevious
4745 :Tag :stag
4746
4747
4748From xvi:
4749- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4750- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4751
4752
4753From vile:
4754- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4755- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4756 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4757
4758
4759Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00004760- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4761 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4762 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4763 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4764 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004765- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4766 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4767- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4768 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4769 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4770 current layout mirrored.
4771- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4772- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4773 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4774- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4775- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4776 font in each top-level window.
4777- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4778- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4779- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4780- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4781 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4782- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4783 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4784 mentioned in the tags file.
4785 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4786 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4787- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4788 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4789- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4790 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
47914 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4792 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4793 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4794 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004795 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004796 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4797 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4798- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4799 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4800 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4801
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00004802When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4803empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004804
4805vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
4806vim: set fo+=n :