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Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Jun 28
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020041Include src/po/vim.pot ?
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020042
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010043Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020044- line continuation at script level:
45 eval_to_string_skip(), test with :throw
46 eval1_emsg(), pass "eap", test with :execute, :echomsg, :echoerr
47 handle_subscript() - call_func_rettv() - get_func_tv()
48 func(
49 args arg)
50 callers of get_func_tv():
51 eval_func()
52 ex_call()
53 function arguments, test assert_equal() with lambda, test :function
54 :import:
55 others
56 eval_index()
57- test:
58 [1,
59 2,
60 3]->Func()
61
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020062Making everything work:
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020063- "nr += 4" gives "already defined" error.
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +020064- Error for "g:var: string = 'value'"
65- Make func()->append('$') work - value is last argument, not first. #6305
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020066- in Vim9 script expressions are evaluated differently, not using a type.
67 e.g. "'' == 0" does not give an error and evaluates to true.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020068- possible memory leak in test_vim9_func through compile_nested_function.
69- memory leaks in test_vim9_expr
70- memory leaks in test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +020071- more return types depending on the first argument, like sort().
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020072- Check that when sourcing a Vim9 script, only the global items can be used.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020073- Make "true" and "false" work in vim9script
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020074- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
75 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
76 defined.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020077- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020078- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
79 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020080- Compile: for [key, value] in items(map)
81- Assignment to dict doesn't work:
82 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
83 ret[i] = string(i)
84- Appending to dict item doesn't work:
85 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020086- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
87- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
88- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
89 islocked()
90- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
91- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
92- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020093- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
94 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020095- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
96 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
97 Can we share the code from ex_let_const() between direct execution and
98 compiling?
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020099- Implement "as Name" in "import Item as Name from ..."
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200100- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
101- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200102- Make closures work:
103 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200104- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
105- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
106- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200107- has() is compiled as a constant, but some checks are dynamic.
108 Check for dynamic values, such as "gui_running".
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200109New syntax and functionality:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200110Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100111- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200112Test:
113- Using a Vim9 autoload script (functions must be global).
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200114Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200115- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
116 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100117- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100118- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
119- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100120- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
121- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100122- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100123- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100124- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
125 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
126- call autoload function.
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100127- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100128- can use func as reference:
129 def SomeFunc() ...
130 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100131- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
132 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100133- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200134- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100135- implement class
136- implement interface
137- predefined class: Promise<T>
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200138- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100139- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
140 EVAL expr
141 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200142Further improvements:
143- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
144 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
145 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200146- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
147 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
148 body
149 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200150- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200151- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200152- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
153- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100154
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200155Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200156- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100157- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100158- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
159 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
160 the way. (#5737)
161 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200162- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100163- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
164 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
165- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200166- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200167 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100168- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
169 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200170- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100171 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100172- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200173
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200174Text properties:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200175- :goto does not go to the right place when test properties are present.
176 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100177- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100178- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100179- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
180 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100181- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100182- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200183
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100184'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200185- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
186 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100187- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
188 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200189- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200190- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200191- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
192 isn't one?
193 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
194
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200195Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100196- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200197- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100198- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200199
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200200Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200201- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100202- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
203 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200204- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100205- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200206- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
207 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
208 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100209- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100210- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
211 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100212 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100213 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200214
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200215Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200216- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200217- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
218 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
219 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
220 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200221- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
222 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100223- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
224 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200225 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
226 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100227 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100228- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100229- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
230 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200231- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
232 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200233- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200234- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200235- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
236 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200237- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
238 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
239- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
240 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200241- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
242 is disabled.
243- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
244- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
245 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200246- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
247 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
248 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
249- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
250- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
251 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
252- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
253 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200254
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200255Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200256E489, E610, E611, E653, E856
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200257
258Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
259
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200260Patch to use collaction based sorting. (Christian Brabandt, #6229)
261
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200262Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
263Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
264
265Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
266Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
267(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
268Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
269- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
270 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
271 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
272- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
273 covered by the above change.
274So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
275same thing.
276Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200277
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200278Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
279autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
280 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
281 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
282 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
283 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
284 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
285The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
286
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200287How about removing Atari MiNT support?
288 src/Make_mint.mak, src/os_mint.h, matches with __MINT__
289
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200290Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
291 replace this:
292 let left = GetLeftFunc()
293 let right = GetRightFunc()
294 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
295 by:
296 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200297Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
298
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100299Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200300Causes flicker on resizing. Workaround from Ken Takata.
301How about only setting the attribute when part of the Vim window is offscreen?
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200302
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100303File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
304
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200305"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
306add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200307Athena is OK.
308Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200309Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
310manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200311
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200312Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
313
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200314:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
315(#5623, also see #5962)
316
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200317Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
318character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200319
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200320undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
321
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100322When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
323(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
324
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200325Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
326/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
327
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200328With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
329'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100330
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200331Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
332which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
333#6127
334
335When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
336":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
337Might be related to #6088.
338
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200339When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
340Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
341(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
342
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100343Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
344(Paul Jolly, #5656)
345Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100346 Later more requests for what to track.
347 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
348 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
349 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100350BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100351Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100352
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200353Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
354
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100355Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
356(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
357
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200358Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
359
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200360Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
361
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100362:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
363Dec 19)
364
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200365Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
366Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
367
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100368Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
369May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200370Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
371remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200372Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100373Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200374
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100375When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
376the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
377
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200378Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100379Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
380in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200381Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
382(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200383
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100384Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
385ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
386
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200387Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
388that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
389Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100390
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100391Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
392(#4087)
393
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100394behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
395#5771)
396
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200397":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
398goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
399unlisted. (#4478)
400
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200401Patch for Template string: #4634
402Copies the text twice, not very efficient. Requires a separate implementation
403for Vim9 script, compiling the string parts and expressions.
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100404
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100405Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100406
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200407":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
408find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
409
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200410Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
411
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200412Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
413Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
414
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100415Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
416
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100417Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
418
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200419The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
420support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
421
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100422"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
423
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200424Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
425Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
426
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100427Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
428
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200429When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
430updated. (#6138)
431
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100432Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
433
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100434Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
435
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200436Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
437(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
438
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200439When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
440default one. #4698
441
442When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
443with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
444
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100445Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200446Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100447
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200448Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200449Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200450
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200451Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
452fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
453
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200454Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200455
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200456Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
457- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
458- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100459- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200460
461Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
46213, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200463
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100464Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
465
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100466When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
467when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
468gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
469input buffer. (#5302)
470
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200471xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
472buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
473Xterm 224 supports it!
474Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
475Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
476Also see issue #609.
477We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
478
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100479:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
480(#5467)
481
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200482Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200483
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100484Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
4852007 Feb 18)
486Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
487
488Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
489Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
490
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200491Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
492
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200493Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200494Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
495Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200496
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100497Errors found with random data:
498 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100499
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200500Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
501files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
502Include part of #3242?
503
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200504When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
505it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
506
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200507Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
508Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
509Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
510
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100511":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
512window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
513#5443)
514
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200515Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
516t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
517
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100518Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
519Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
520
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200521'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
522
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200523"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
524(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
525
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200526Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
527
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100528Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
529
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200530Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
531
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100532When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
533in a long line. #5189
534
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200535The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
536Give a few examples. (#4288)
537
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200538Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
539work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
540
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005417 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
542 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
543 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200544Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200545
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100546Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
547read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
548be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
549
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100550Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
551CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
552with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
553fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
554displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
555
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200556Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
557
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200558Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
559
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200560Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
561https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
562
563Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
564http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
565http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
566Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100567- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200568- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
569- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
570 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
571- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
572- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
573Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
574- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
575- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
576Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
577- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
578
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100579Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
580Mar 5)
581
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200582Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
583- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
584 line.
585- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
586 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
587- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
588 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
589
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200590Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
591on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
592
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200593Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
594in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
595buffer didn't change at all.
596
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200597Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
598(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
599
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200600Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
601'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
602(#4450)
603
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100604When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
605But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
606similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
607
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200608C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
609(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
610
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100611Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
612added?
613
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200614Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
615negative. (see #4326)
616
617'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
618`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
619tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
620:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
621
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200622This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
623 vim: syn=nosyntax
624
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200625":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
626a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
627
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100628Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
629#2948. (related to #1512?)
630On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
631balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
63220, #2481)
633Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
634Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
635balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6362018 Sep 14)
637Another request: #3811.
638
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200639More warnings from static analysis:
640https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200641
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100642Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
643
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200644Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
645
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200646Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
647internals of the dict structure.
648
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100649nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
650
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200651Missing tests for:
652- add_termcap_entry()
653
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200654Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
655change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
656them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
657
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100658Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
659Also run all tests with C locale?
660
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100661"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
662#3927
663
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200664Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200665Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200666
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100667When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
668case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
669For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
670
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200671Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
672(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
673expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200674
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200675Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
676 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
677 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
678
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100679Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100680punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100681
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200682ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
683
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200684Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
685drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
686
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200687Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
688is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
689
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100690When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
691scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
692using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
693
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200694Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
695#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
696(Sep 8)
697
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200698Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
699unified diff (list of lines).
700
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100701When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
702kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
703when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
704
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100705Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
706(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100707
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100708Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
709
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100710Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100711Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200712TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100713Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200714Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
715Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200716
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200717gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200718
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200719matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
72019.
721
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100722Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100723Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100724Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
725highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200726And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
727'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100728Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
729Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100730
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100731Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
732Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
733
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200734Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
735Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
736Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
737
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200738Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
739screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
740
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200741home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
742
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200743When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
744terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
745How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
746
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200747Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
748
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100749Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
750Feedback from someone who uses this?
751
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200752ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
753
754Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
755Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
756values.
757
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100758Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200759- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
760- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
761- omit diff.exe from distribution
762- Can we make this show differences within a line?
763- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200764
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200765Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
766
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100767Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200768What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100769
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200770When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
771includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
772
773Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200774Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200775
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200776MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
777(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
778
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100779Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
780
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200781Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
782
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200783Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
784window for the buffer.
785
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200786Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
787when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
788
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100789Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
790mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
791
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200792Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
793modified buffers
794 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
795 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
796 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
797 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
798
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100799Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
800- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
801- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
802- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100803- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
804
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200805Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
806characters. (#3246)
807
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200808'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
809
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100810Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
811Oct 28)
812
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200813ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
814Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
815Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
816Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
817
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100818Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
819- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
820
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200821Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
822- Test_setbufvar_options()
823- Test_exit_callback_interval()
824
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200825Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
826Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100827Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
828Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200829
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200830Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
831
832Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
83324)
834
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100835Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100836 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100837or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100838 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
839
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100840Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100841mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100842
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200843Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
844is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
845used for git temp files.
846
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100847Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
848
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200849Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
850behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
851(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
852
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200853Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
854pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
855
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200856Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
857script or function.
858
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200859When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
860E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
861does nothing otherwise?
862
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200863MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
864If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
865(wait a little while).
866CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100867
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200868Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
869MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8702017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
871receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
872
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200873Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
874missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
875
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200876":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
877deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
878
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200879Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200880
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200881With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
882included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
883(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
884
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200885Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200886Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200887
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100888Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100889Jan 15, #2555)
890
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200891":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
892
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100893Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
894
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100895No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
896No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
897
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200898Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
899http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
900Should be supported with a flag.
901
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100902Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
903confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
904
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100905Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
906
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100907Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
908Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
909applying the diff, etc.
910
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200911Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
912Apr 26, #2849)
913
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100914User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
915word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100916
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100917Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200918
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200919With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
920(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
921
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200922Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
923:drop (remote commands).
924
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200925Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9262018 Jun 18, #3027)
927
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200928Implement option_save() and option_restore():
929option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
930 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
931 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
932 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
933 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
934 be called when the same window is the current window.
935 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
936 the local options won't be restored.
937
938option_save({list}) *option_save()*
939 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
940 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
941 let s:saved_options = option_save([
942 \ 'ignorecase',
943 \ 'iskeyword',
944 \ ])
945 au <buffer> BufLeave *
946 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
947< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
948 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
949 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
950 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100951 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
952 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
953 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100954 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200955
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100956"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
957directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
958Also see #1689.
959
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100960When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100961highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100962
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200963":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
964
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100965No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9662017 Dec 26, #2501)
967
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200968A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
969
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200970Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
971
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200972A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
973Mention where they were defined somewhere.
974
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100975Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
976(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
977
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200978ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
979
980Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
981
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100982Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
983Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
984
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100985Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
986in #846)
987Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
988
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200989Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
990Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
991
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100992When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
993redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200994
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100995In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
996(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
997
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100998Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
999neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001000
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001001Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1002Nov 21)
1003
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001004When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
1005triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1006set_color_count().
1007
1008Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1009responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1010
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001011When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1012CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1013Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1014always nested.
1015
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001016matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1017
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001018Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1019
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001020MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001021for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1022
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001023Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001024(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001025
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001026Test runtime files.
1027Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001028
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001029Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001030
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001031Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1032defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1033Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1034
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001035After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
103613, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001037
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001038When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1039line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1040
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001041The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1042
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001043Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1044set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001045Was this fixed?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001046
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001047Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1048
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001049Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1050behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1051
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001052'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1053
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001054The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1055
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001056When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1057a command can delete it.
1058
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001059Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1060#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1061
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001062The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1063for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1064
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001065X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1066pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1067clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1068Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1069Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1070clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001071Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001072
1073Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1074
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001075Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1076attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1077that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1078
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001079Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1080(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1081
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001082Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1083buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1084Also fixes #2166?
1085
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001086Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1087stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1088
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001089Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1090possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1091
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001092When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1093case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1094
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001095Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1096existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1097Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1098
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001099Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001100
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001101MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1102Jul 4)
1103
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001104Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1105Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1106This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1107Christian cannot reproduce it.
1108
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001109Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1110wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1111Or is this not an actual problem?
1112
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001113Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1114
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001115Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1116
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001117'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1118#1736)
1119
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001120Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11218, #1690)
1122
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001123Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1124(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1125
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001126Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1127it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1128
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001129Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1130Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1131How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1132
1133Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1134(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1135
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001136Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1137
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001138assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1139it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1140
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001141Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1142for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001143
1144Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1145(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1146Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1147later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1148Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1149mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001150Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1151mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001152maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001153
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001154Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001155plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1156be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1157
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001158Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1159 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1160 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001161
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001162json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001163What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001164
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001165Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1166
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001167import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1168(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1169
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001170When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1171buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1172Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001173
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001174Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1175Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001176Another example in #1309
1177
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001178When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1179when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1180
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001181Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1182#1330)
1183
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001184Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1185
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001186Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1187
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001188GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1189g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1190timer expires.
1191
1192Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1193
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001194Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1195highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1196
11978 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1198 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1199
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001200Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1201Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1202
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001203Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1204key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1205 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1206 echo keytrans(xx)
1207 <C-Home>
1208
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001209Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1210(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1211Make a function to check for function-like type?
1212
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001213Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1214(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1215
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001216Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1217 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001218 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001219
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001220Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1221somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1222
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001223The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1224"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1225Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1226
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001227Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1228
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001229Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1230about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001231Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1232
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001233Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1234#1053) With patch, does it work?
1235
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001236":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001237vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1238
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001239Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001240E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001241Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001242
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001243Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1244Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1245
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001246Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001247Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001248
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001249"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1250(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1251
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001252Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1253(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001254Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001255
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001256'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1257
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001258Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1259
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001260When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1261Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001262Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001263
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001264Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1265anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1266
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001267Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001268E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001269
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001270Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1271(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1272
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001273Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1274
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001275On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1276separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1277
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001278min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1279contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1280
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001281Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1282
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001283Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1284
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001285Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1286
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001287Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1288no longer support.
1289
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001290sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12914#1038)
1292
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001293+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001294- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001295- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1296 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1297 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001298- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1299 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001300- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1301 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001302- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1303- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1304 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1305- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1306 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1307- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001308- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1309 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001310- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1311- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1312 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1313 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1314- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1315- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1316- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1317 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1318 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1319- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1320 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1321- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1322 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1323 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1324
1325Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001326- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1327 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1328 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1329 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001330- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1331 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001332- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1333 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1334- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1335 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1336- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1337 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1338 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1339 LC_CTYPE
1340- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1341 matches everywhere.
1342- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1343 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1344- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1345- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1346 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1347- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1348- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1349 2013 Dec 11)
1350- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1351 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1352- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1353- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1354 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1355- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1356- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1357- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1358- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1359 2015 Feb 7)
1360- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1361 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1362 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1363 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1364 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1365- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1366- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1367- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1368- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1369 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1370 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1371 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1372- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1373 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1374- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1375 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1376 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1377 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1378
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001379Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1380#1350)
1381
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001382Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13833. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1384Also see #1635.
1385
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001386When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1387command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1388
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001389Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1390doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1391Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001392Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001393E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1394
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001395cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1396
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001397:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1398
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001399Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1400
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001401When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1402synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1403
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001404Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1405Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001406
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001407ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1408Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001409
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001410Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1411Jul 25, #948)
1412
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001413Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1414names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1415Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1416the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1417
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001418MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1419Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001420
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001421Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1422
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001423Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1424#1125
1425
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001426Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1427times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1428
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001429Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1430
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001431Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1432
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001433We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1434the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1435
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001436Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1437
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001438When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1439emoji_width table has only one entry.
1440
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001441It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1442Reject the value? #710.
1443
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001444When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1445Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1446
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001447Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1448No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001449
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001450Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1451(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001452
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001453Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1454
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001455Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1456https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1457Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1458
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001459Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1460but the reference remains valid.
1461
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001462Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001463interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1464Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1465interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1466result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001467
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001468Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001469work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001470
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001471Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1472
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001473Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1474
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001475Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1476Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1477
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001478When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1479Apr 17) #762
1480
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001481exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1482Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1483
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001484Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1485'iskeyword' for syntax.
1486
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001487When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1488maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001489Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001490
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001491Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1492It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1493Add configure check?
1494Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1495Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1496Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1497
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001498Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1499Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1500
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001501Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1502Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1503
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001504":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1505directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1506
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001507In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1508(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1509
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001510If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15112016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001512
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001513Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1514(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1515
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001516When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1517restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1518Do not trigger the event?
1519
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001520Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1521Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1522https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1523
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001524Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1525With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1526
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001527Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001528
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001529Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1530
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001531Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001532Only remembers one error.
1533
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001534GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001535
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001536Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1537(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001538
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001539Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1540github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001541 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001542Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001543
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001544Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001545
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001546Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001547comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001548
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001549Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1550
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001551MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1552wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1553
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001554Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1555specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1556
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001557Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1558(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1559
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001560Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001561inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001562
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001563Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1564(Luchr, #277)
1565
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001566Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001567'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1568before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001569
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001570C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1571and also line continuation after #include.
1572I can't recommend it though.
1573
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001574Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1575(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1576
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001577To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1578library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1579
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001580When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1581is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1582
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001583Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
158430)
1585
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001586MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1587(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1588
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001589The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
159024): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001591
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001592":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1593effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1594
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001595":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15969)
1597
1598The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1599wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1600
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001601Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001602Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001603
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001604When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1605the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1606
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001607Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001608slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1609inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1610
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001611ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16122014 Sep 11)
1613
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001614Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1615(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1616
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001617When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1618'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1619
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001620Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1621Work in progress.
1622
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001623Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1624when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1625
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001626Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1627Is this right?
1628
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001629Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1630(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1631Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1632
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001633Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1634Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001635
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001636Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1637Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1638
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001639Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1640
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001641When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1642filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1643initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1644
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001645Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1646
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001647Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1648OK to not block marks?
1649
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001650Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1651
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001652Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1653
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001654When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1655(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1656
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001657Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001658
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001659Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1660(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1661
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001662When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1663any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1664
1665Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001666
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001667Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001668
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001669Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1670(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1671
1672Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1673
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001674Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1675Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1676was already defined.
1677(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1678
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001679Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1680
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001681Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001682Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001683Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001684Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001685
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001686Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1687(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1688
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001689Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1690(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1691
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001692Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1693
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001694When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1695these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1696window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1697
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001698Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1699should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1700history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1701Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1702
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001703"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1704Jun 8)
1705
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001706Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1707insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1708
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001709No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1710
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001711Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1712(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1713Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1714arguments.
1715
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001716Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1717
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001718Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17190x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1720New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1721compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1722
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001723Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1724a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1725
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001726Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1727right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001728its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001729
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001730Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1731
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001732This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1733 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1734This neither: (ZyX)
1735 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1736
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001737'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1738Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1739from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001740
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001741Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17422014 Jun 8)
1743
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001744Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1745https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001746Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001747Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1748package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001749Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1750Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1751User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001752- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1753 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1754 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001755- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1756- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1757 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1758 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1759 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1760 on vim.org.
1761- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1762 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1763- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1764- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1765- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1766- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1767Implementation:
1768- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1769 plugin separate.
1770- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1771 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1772 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1773- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1774 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1775- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1776 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1777 installing.
1778Out of scope:
1779- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1780- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1781 useful).
1782
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001783Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1784normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001785
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001786When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1787menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1788
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001789Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1790(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1791
1792":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1793various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001794
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001795Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001796(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1797
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001798VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1799instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1800
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001801Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001802Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001803Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001804
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001805Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001806command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001807
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001808Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1809
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001810Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1811highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001812
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001813The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1814For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1815
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001816Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001817possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001818
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001819Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001820
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001821Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1822
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018237 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1824 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1825 "lucida_console:h8").
1826Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1827
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001828:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1829
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001830Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1831
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001832Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1833
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001834When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1835(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1836
1837Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001838Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001839
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001840GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1841(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1842
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001843Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1844registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1845
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001846Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1847
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001848The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1849(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1850Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1851
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001852The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1853- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1854- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1855
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001856Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1857Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1858reliably?
1859
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001860Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1861(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1862
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001863Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1864(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001865Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1866(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1867try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1868try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001869
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001870Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18712013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001872
1873Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1874
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001875Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18765)
1877
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001878Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1879carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1880
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001881Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1882highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1883
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001884Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001885
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001886Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200188728) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001888
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001889Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1890
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001891Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1892
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001893- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1894 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1895Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001896
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001897Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001898
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001899In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1900process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1901a reboot.
1902
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001903patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001904Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1905Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001906
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001907Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1908not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001909
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001910Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1911Or use expand('<sid>')?
1912
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001913Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1914
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001915Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1916
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001917b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19187)
1919
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001920Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1921compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1922
1923Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1924Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1925vim.bindeval().
1926
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001927Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19282012 Aug 4)
1929
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001930Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1931(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1932
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001933Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1934But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1935
1936Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1937Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1938Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001939
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001940Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1941loading all files.
1942
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001943MS-Windows resizing problems:
1944- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1945 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1946- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1947 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1948 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001949
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001950'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001951
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001952Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001953of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1954
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001955The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1956Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1957But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001958
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001959When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1960is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1961
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001962URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001963- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001964- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1965 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1966
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001967Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1968(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1969Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1970
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001971Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001972New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001973
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001974When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1975for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1976Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001977
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001978Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1979
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001980Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1981
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001982Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1983Apr 18)
1984
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001985Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1986And one for gui_x11.txt.
1987
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001988":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1989finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1990Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1991
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001992Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1993
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001994Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1995
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001996Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1997they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1998
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001999Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2000
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002001Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2002Nov 20)
2003
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002004Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002005Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002006
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002007`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002008(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2009
2010Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2011
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002012BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2013Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2014
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002015Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2016Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2017
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002018Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2019
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002020On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20212012 Jun 19)
2022
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002023'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2024'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2025Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002026Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002027
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002028With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2029(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2030need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2031
2032Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2033only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
203421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2035
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002036Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2037New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2038
2039Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2040Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2041
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002042Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2043Jan 19)
2044
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002045Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2046discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2047meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002048
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002049"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002050Oct 26)
2051
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002052Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2053
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002054With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2055register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002056
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002057Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2058
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002059When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2060(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2061
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002062When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2063then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2064from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2065
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002066Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2067":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
206815)
2069
2070Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2071
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002072BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2073cleared. See test64.
2074
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002075On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
207664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2077right type.
2078
2079string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2080(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2081
2082When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2083(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002084When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2085following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2086(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002087
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002088When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2089doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2090
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002091Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2092
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002093When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2094indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2095the help file.
2096
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002097After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2098Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2099
2100Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2101
2102"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2103
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002104Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2105
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002106Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002107
2108Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21092010 Dec 18)
2110
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002111With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2112number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2113Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2114
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002115Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2116Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2117
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021188 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2119Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2120
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002121Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2122one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2123the match scrolls into view.
2124
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021257 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2126Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2127Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2128
21299 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2130 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2131Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2132
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002133Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2134Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2135
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002136In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2137or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2138sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2139
2140GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2141doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2142
2143GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2144
2145Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2146Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2147
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002148Wish for NetBeans commands:
2149 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2150
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002151Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2152
21537.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2154there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2155do?
2156
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002157Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
215822)
2159
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002160New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2161- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002162- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002163 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2164
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002165"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21662011 Feb 27)
2167
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002168Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2169^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2170
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002171When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2172exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21739) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2174
2175g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2176the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2177
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002178Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2179crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2180
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002181Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2182number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2183
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002184Regexp engine performance:
2185- Profiling:
2186 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2187 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2188 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2189 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2190 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2191 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2192- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2193- Performance tests:
2194 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2195 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2196 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2197 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2198 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2199 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2200 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2201 'hlsearch'.
2202 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2203 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2204 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2205 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2206
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002207Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2208Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2209
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002210'beval' option should be global-local.
2211
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002212Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002213
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002214setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002215
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002216With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22172010 Oct 24)
2218
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002219Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2220
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002221When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2222Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2223
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002224":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2225
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002226'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2227
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002228C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2229checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2230Issue 46.
2231
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002232Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2233
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002234Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2235gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2236
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002237":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2238accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2239
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002240Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2241setwinvar().
2242
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002243Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002244
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002245When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2246instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2247
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002248Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2249Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2250Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002251
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002252Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2253back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2254
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002255Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002256Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2257
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002258CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2259the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2260FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2261
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002262Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2263Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2264
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002265Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2266Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2267
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002268Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2269
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002270Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2271non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002272
2273iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2274Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2275or replace with a character and continue?
2276
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2278Requires configure check for localtime().
2279Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2280
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002281Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2282
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002283Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2284Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2285path.
2286
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002287Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002288Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002289
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002290'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2291
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002292":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2293like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2294
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002295Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2296https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002297
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002298Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22992010 Nov 5)
2300
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002301Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002302Jan 7)
2303
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002304Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2305
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002306With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2307entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2308Feb 12)
2309
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002310Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2311characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2312
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002313Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2314
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002315Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2316 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2317
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002318Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2319
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002320When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2321Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2322
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2324not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2325string value.
2326
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002327For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002328line argument -noregister.
2329
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002330When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2331missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2332
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002333When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2334doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002335
2336Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2337(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2338Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2339There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2340Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2341
2342":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2343highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2344to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2345
2346Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2347Probably needs a bit of work.
2348
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002349List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002350Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2351
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002352Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2353
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002354Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2355
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002356Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2357Sep 1)
2358
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002359Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2360
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002361Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2362on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2363
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002364Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23652009 Jul 18)
2366
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002367Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2368window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2369Needs more work.
2370
2371Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2372
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002373When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2374few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2375
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002376'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002377(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2378
2379Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2380J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2381
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002382When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2383for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2384
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002385Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2386
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002387":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2388because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2389ex_docmd.c.
2390
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002391Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002392Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2393
2394string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2395for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2396
2397Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2398
2399'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
240020)
2401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002402Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24032009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2404
2405Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2406
2407Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2408SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2409
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002410When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2411indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2412(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2413
2414Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2415are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2416Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2417Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2418that doesn't have a window.
2419
2420When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2421doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2422
2423getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2424displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2425
2426":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2427
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002428There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2429was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2430perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2431
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002432Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2433
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002434Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2435command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2436
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002437Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2438does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2439
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002440opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2441height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002442very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002443
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002444Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2445(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2446
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002447Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002448(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2449
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002450Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2451char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2452
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002453Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2454Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2455
2456This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002458Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2459messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2460es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24612009 Jan 26)
2462
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002463When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002464in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2465Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2466
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002467Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2468a modeline.
2469
2470Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2471Sergey Khorev)
2472
2473Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2474part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020024756 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2476 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2477 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002479After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2480correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2481
2482Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2483(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2484
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002485shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002486'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2487Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2488unix-like shell?
2489
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002490Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2491register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2492(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2493
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002494Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2495Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2496
2497Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2498make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002500When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2501still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2502
2503"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2504(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2505
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002506Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2507that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2508ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2509Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2510
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002511MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2512doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2513probably causes this.
2514
2515'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025162009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002517
2518Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2519 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2520 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2521(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2522
2523Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2524":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2525option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2526is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002527
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002528":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2529first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002530Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002531
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002532Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2533laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2534Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002535
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002536Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2537anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2538
2539On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2540doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2541Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2542Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2543
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002544When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2545'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2546fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2547the buffer to be unmodified.
2548Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2549another look at it.
2550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002551c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2552(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2553
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002554You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2555error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2556Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2557at the other match for 0xBF.
2558
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002559When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2560argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2561
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002562Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2563backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2564
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002565When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2566line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2567
2568Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2569position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2570
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002571After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2572(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002573command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002574
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002575":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2576Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2577
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002578When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2579either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2580put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2581
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002582Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2583Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2584Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2585Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2586(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002588Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2589
2590ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002591
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002592Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2593(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2594escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2595an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002596This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2597July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002598Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2599work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2600
2601When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
260231)
2603
2604Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2605work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2606Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002607
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002608Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2609multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2610(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2611
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002612Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26132008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002614Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002615
2616Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2617Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2618'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2619
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002620Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2621Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2622
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002623Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2624Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2625
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026268 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2627 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2628 several).
2629 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2630 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2631 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2632Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2633
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002634The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002635 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002636 0x2217, star
2637 0x2500, bar
2638 0x26ab, circle
2639
2640Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2641line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2642
2643GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2644Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2645
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002646Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2647try the Cocoa version.
2648
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002649Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2650changed or the window is resized.
2651
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002652GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2653the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2654
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2656Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002657
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002658Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26591) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2660
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002661C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2662with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2663Try to reproduce at work.
2664
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002665Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2666Is there a way to list all the files first?
2667
2668When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2669result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
267016)
2671
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002672Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2673(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2674
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002675Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2676Await response to question to make the register writable.
2677
2678Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26791)
2680
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002681In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2682each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2683
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002684":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2685Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2686
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002687Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2688
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002689Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2690Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2691
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002692Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2693Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2694Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002695
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002696When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2697and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2698
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002699Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2700 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2701
2702New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2703
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002704":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2705a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2706
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002707'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2708Likonen, March 19)
2709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002710Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2711other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2712
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002713The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2714appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2715matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2716
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002717When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2718character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2719'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2720(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2721
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002722Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2723Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002724
2725More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2726
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002727Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2728http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2729
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002730Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2731back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2732Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002733
2734Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2735No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2736
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002737Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2738terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002739
2740Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2741
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002742Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2743but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2744that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002745
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002746Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2747Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2748
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002749Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2750popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2751size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2752This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2753
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002754When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2755it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2756
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002757Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2758then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2759files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002760Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2761indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2762":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002763in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2764quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002765Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002766
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002767When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2768parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2769neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2770particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2771Jun 3)
2772However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2773the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002774
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002775A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2776Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2777
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002778Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2779Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2782switch list is noticed:
2783 switch (i)
2784 {
2785 case 1:
2786 foobar:
2787 }
2788
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002789Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2790
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002791Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2792with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2793go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2794moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2795
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002796Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002797GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002798Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2799argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2800(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2801
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002802Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2803(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2804
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002805Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28062007 Feb 8)
2807
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002808Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2809set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002810
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002811Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2812
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002813Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2814Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2815New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2816patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2817
2818Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2819Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002821Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002822label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2823
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002824Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2825with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2826Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002827
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002828Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2829
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002830Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2831Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2832only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2833
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002834Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2835Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002836Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002837properly?
2838
2839Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28402007 Jun 21)
2841
2842When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2843Jun 18)
2844
2845If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2846
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002847Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2848windows. (Adam George)
2849
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002850In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2851the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2852
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002853C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2856
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002857When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002858error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002859
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002860GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002861use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2862
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002863Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2864if_ruby.c.
2865
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002866":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2867
2868The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2869it in keep_msg?
2870
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002871Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002872error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2874
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002875Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2876longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002877
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002878Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2879Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2880Also for ":w" without a file name.
2881The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002882
2883"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2884Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2885
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002886VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2887directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2888(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2889
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002890VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2891
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002892input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2893name?
2894
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002895Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2896
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002897When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2898(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002899Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002900will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2901
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002902gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2903This also fails with --remote.
2904
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002905When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29062008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2907all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2910
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002911When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2912(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2913
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002914Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2915the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2916
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002917GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2918
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002919Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2920superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2921
2922Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2923character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2924
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002925Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2926Jun 5)
2927
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002928Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29292008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2930Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2931
2932In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2933but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2934Jul 22)
2935
2936There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2937
2938Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2939":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2940somehow? Or use a new function.
2941
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002942Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2943
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002944Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2945moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2946that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2947
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002948The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2949
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002950When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002951cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2952the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2953
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002954These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2955 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2956 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2957 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2958
2959Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2960partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2961
2962In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2963buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2964reload it then?
2965
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002966For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2967
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002968Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2969only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2970
2971Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2972tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2973doesn't contain other directories.
2974
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002975Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2976Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2977
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002978Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2979 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2980 set background=dark
2981This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2982color is, not reset it.
2983
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002984Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2985start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2986show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2987middle?
2988
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002989Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2990
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002991When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2992current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2993the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2994
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002995When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2996Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2997
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002998Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2999Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3000
3001Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3002
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003003A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3004Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3005
3006Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3007Dara, 2006 June 21)
3008
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003009Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3010number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3011
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003012After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3013the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3014
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003015Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003016
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003017Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3018Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3019
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003020Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030212008 Sep 29)
3022
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003023In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3024check the result of has("patch13").
3025
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003026Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3027restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3028
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003029Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3030and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3031
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003032Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3033put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3034
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003035Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3036resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3037
3038In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3039can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3040
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003041GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3042maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3043doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003044Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3045visible.
3046
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003047When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3048differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003049
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003050The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3051be only one.
3052
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003053Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003054"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3055name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3056Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003057
3058Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3059(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3060
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003061Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3062as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3063
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003064Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
306523)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003066
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003067":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3068tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3069Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003070
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003071When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3072text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3073latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3074
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003075Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3076no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3077
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003078In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3079VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30802007 Oct 16)
3081
3082TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3083Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3084
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003085Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003086
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003087When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3088typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3089Sep 3, 11)
3090
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003091":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3092this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3093
3094When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3095Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3096restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3097
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003098Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30992010 Jun 30)
3100
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003101Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3102'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3103(Kartik Agaram)
3104
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003105
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003106Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003107- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3108 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3109- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3110 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3111 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3112- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3113 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3114 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003115- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3116- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003117
3118
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003119More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003120- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3121 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003122- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003123- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3124 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003125- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3126- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3127- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3128 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3129 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003130- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003131- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3132 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3133- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3134 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3135- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3136 21)
3137- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3138 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3139- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3140 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003141- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3142 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003143- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3144 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3145 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3146 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3147 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003148- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003149
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003150Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031519 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3152 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3153 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3154 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3155 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3156 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3157 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3158 (Alan Schmitt)
3159 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003160 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3161 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031629 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003163 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031648 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031657 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3166 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3167 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031688 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003169 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031707 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003171 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3172- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3173 for multi-byte characters.
3174- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3175- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3176 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3177 been given values.
3178 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031797 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3180 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3181- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3182 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3183 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31848 Add functions:
3185 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3186 Update 2004 Sep 10
3187 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3188 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003189 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003190 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3191 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3192 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3193 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3194 (2003 May 13)
3195 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3196 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003197 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3198 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003199 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3200 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3201 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032027 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3203 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032047 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3205 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032068 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3207 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032087 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32098 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3210 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32117 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3212 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032137 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3214- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3215 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3216 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003217- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3218 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3219- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3220
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003221Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3222- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3223 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3224
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003225Quickfix/Location List:
3226- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3227 #2999)
3228- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3229 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3230 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3231 the quickfix buffer?
3232- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3233 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3234- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3235 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3236- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3237 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3238 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3239- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3240 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3241- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3242- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3243 2007 Jan 1)
3244- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3245 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3246- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3247 errors. How do we get the rest?
32488 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3249 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3250 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3251 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32527 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003253 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003254
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003255Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003256- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3257 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032588 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3259 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3260 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3261 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3262 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3263 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032648 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3265 make Vim exit.
32667 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3267 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3268 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32698 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3270 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3271 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32726 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3273 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3274 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32758 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3276 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3277 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3278 names in one buffer???
3279 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3280 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3281 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32827 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3283 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3284 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003285 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3286 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032877 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3288 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32897 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032907 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3291 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3292 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3293 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32947 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32957 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32967 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3297 to the match with the tag? Option?
32987 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32997 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3300 (Sayre).
33017 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3302 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033037 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3304 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3305 match. Nvi can do it too.
33067 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3307 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3308 line 1\ line 2\\
3309 line 2\ line 3\\
3310 . line4/
33116 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3312 the way the shell is started?
33136 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3314 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3315
3316
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003317GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033189 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033198 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3320 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3321 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033228 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3323 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3324 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033259 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3326 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3327 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3328 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003329- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3330 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3331 blocked for now.
3332
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003333
3334Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003335- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3336 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033378 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3338 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3339 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033406 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3341 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033428 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3343 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3344 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033457 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3346 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3347 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033487 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3349 2004 May 9)
33508 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3351 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3352 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3353 MS-Windows 98?
3354 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3355 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3356 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3357 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033588 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3359 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3360 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3361 doesn't work properly.
33628 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3363 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3364 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33659 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3366 button doesn't give popup menu.
3367 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3368 selection.
3369 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3370 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3371 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33728 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3373 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3374 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3375 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33768 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3377 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3378 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033797 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3380 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003381 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033827 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3383 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033846 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33858 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3386 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3387 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33888 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3389 know which keyboard is being used?
33907 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3391 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3392 area (Koloseike).
33938 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3394 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3395 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3396 the font name).
3397
3398
3399Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034006 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3401 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3402 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3403 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3404 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034059 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3406 required and it's missing?
34078 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3408 wrong.
34099 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3410 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034119 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003412 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3413 flag.
34148 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3415 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3416 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34178 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34186 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3419 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3420 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3421 the tooltips work though...
34227 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3423 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34248 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3425 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3426 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3427
3428
3429Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034309 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3431 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034329 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3433 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3434 through files.
34357 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3436 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34374 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3438 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3439 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3440 problem during a refresh.
34415 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3442 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3443 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3444 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3445 colors as it should.
3446 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3447 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3448
3449
3450Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003451- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034527 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3453 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034548 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3455 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3456 (Phillipps)
3457
3458
3459GUI:
34609 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3461 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34629 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003463 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003464 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34659 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3466 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034678 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3468 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3469 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34708 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3471 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3472 of where it is processing the output.
3473 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34748 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3475 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034768 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034778 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3478 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3479 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034808 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034818 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3482 browse().
34838 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3484 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34858 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3486 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034877 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3488 - regexp on/off
3489 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3490 when all buffers/directory is used:
3491 - filter for file name
3492 when directory is used:
3493 - subdirectory on/off
3494 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034958 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3496 to avoid problems.
34978 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3498 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3499 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35008 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3501 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3502 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35038 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3504 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035058 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35067 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3507 visible.
35087 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3509 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35107 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3511 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35128 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3513 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35148 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3515 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3516 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3517 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3518- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35194 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3520 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3521 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3522
3523
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003524Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035258 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3526 a good fallback, thus use:
3527 $HOME
3528 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3529 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3530 $USERPROFILE
3531 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3532 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3533 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3534 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035358 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3536 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35378 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3538 Should work like in the GUI version.
35398 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3540 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35418 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3542 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35438 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3544 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3545 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035468 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3547 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3548 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3549
3550
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003551Win32 console:
35529 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3553 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3554 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3555 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3556 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3557 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3558 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3559 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3560 and the file is not saved.
3561 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3562 long name.
35638 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3564 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35657 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3566 besides the console.
35678 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35689 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3569 <C-S-i>?
35709 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3571 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35728 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3573 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003574
3575
3576Amiga:
35778 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3578 sequences.
35799 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3580 backslashes in result.
35818 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3582 all options, using white space separation.
3583
3584
3585Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003586- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035877 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3588 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3589 (Jack)
3590 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035918 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3592 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035938 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35948 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35959 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3596 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035979 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003598
3599
3600"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003601- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3602 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036039 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3604 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036059 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003606 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3607 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036088 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3609 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3610 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003611 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036127 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3613 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36148 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3615 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3616 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036177 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3618 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003619- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3620 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036218 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3622 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3623 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3624 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36257 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3626 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3627 invocations belong together.
36288 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3629 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36308 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3631 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3632 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003633 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036348 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3635 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3636 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036378 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3638 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036397 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3640 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3641 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3642 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036437 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3644 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3645 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36467 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3647 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3648 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36497 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3650 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036517 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3652 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036539 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3654 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3655 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3656 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3657 script can be called.
36588 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3659 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3660 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036618 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3662 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036638 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003664 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3665 configurable?
36668 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036678 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3668 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036698 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3670 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036718 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3672 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036739 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3674 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3675 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036767 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036778 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3678 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3679 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036808 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3681 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003682 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3683 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036848 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3685 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36869 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3687 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3688 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003689 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036907 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3691 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036927 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3693 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3694 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3695 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036968 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003697 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3698 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3699 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3700 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003701 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3702 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003703 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003704 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003705 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3706 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3707 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3708 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3709 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037108 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3711 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37128 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3713 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37148 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3715 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3716 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37178 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3718 'linebreak'.
37198 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3720 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3721 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037229 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3723 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3724 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3725 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37269 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3727 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037289 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37299 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3730 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3731 cause another redraw, etc.
37328 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3733 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37348 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3735 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3736 ":w!!" for that.
3737 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3738 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003739 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037407 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3741 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3742 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3743 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3744 clipboard)
37457 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3746 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3747 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037486 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3749 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3750 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037518 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3752 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37538 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3754 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3755 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37568 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3757 (e.g., ":w").
37588 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3759 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037608 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3761 script in do_cmdline().
37628 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3763 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3764 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3765 changes.
37668 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3767 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37688 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3769 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037708 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3771 to skip catch_signals()?
37729 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3773 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3774 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3775 text?
37768 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3777 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37788 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3779 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37809 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3781 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3782 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3783 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3784 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37857 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3786 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3787 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3788 in the list?
37898 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3790 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3791 instead of on button down.
37928 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37939 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3794 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003795 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3796 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3798 character is typed.
37998 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3800 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38018 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3802 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38038 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3804 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3805 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3806 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3807 cygwin bash.
38087 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3809 Remember flags for backreferences.
38107 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3811 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38127 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3813 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38148 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3815 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38167 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3817 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038187 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3819 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3820 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38217 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3822 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38238 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3824 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3825 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38267 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3827 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828
3829
3830I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38319 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3832 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3833 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003834
3835
3836Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003837- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3838 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3839 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003840- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3841 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3842 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3843 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3844 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3845 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003846 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003847- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3848 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003849 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003850 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3851 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3852 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003853- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3854 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3855 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3856 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3857 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3858- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3859 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3860 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3861- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3862 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003863- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003864- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3865 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3866 character gets the highlighting.
3867- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3868 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3869- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3870 (Jennings)
3871- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003872- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003873- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003874 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003875- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3876 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3877 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3878- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3879 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3880 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3881 (Benzinger).
3882- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3883 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3884 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3885- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3886 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3887- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3888 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3889- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3890 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3891 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3892 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3893 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3894 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3895- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3896 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3897 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003898- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3899 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3900 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003901- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3902 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3903 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3904- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3905 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3906- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3907 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003908- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3909 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3910- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3911 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3912 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3913 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3914 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3915- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3916 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3917 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3918- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3919 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3920 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003921- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3922 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 +00003923- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3924 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3925 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3926 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3927 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3928- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3929 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3930
3931--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3932 *extensions-improvements*
3933
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003934Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3935- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3936 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3937 calling a function.
3938 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3939 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003940- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3941 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003942 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003943- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3944 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3945 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3946 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3947 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3948 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003949 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003950- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3951 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3952 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003953- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3954 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039558 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3956 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3957 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3958 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003959- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3960 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003961
3962
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003963Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039648 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3965 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039668 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3967 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039688 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3969 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039708 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039719 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3972 - change to cursor position and curswant
3973 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3974 - how it works for folded lines
3975 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39769 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3977 work too.
39788 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3979 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3980 text.
39818 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39827 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3983 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39847 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3985 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003986 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003987- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3988
3989
3990Help:
3991- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3992 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3993- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3994 to the other matches.
3995- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003996- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3997 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3998 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3999 default contents.
4000- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4001 height for the help window (and other windows).
4002- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4003- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4004- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4005
4006
4007User Friendlier:
40088 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4009 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4010 Briscoe)
40118 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40128 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4013 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4014 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40158 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4016 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4017- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4018 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004019- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40209 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4021 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4022 item?).
4023 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040248 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040257 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4026 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4027 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040288 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4029 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4030 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4031 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004032
4033
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004034Tab pages:
40359 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040367 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4037 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040388 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040398 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040407 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040417 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004042 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040438 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4044 tab pages.
40457 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4046
4047
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004048Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004049- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004050 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004051- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4052 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4053 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4054- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4055 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004056- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4057 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4058 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004059- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4060 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4061 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004062- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004063 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4064 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040658 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4066 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40678 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4068 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40698 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4070 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004071 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004072 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4073 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4074 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4075 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004076- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4077 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004078- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004079- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4080 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004081- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004082 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004083- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004084 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004085- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4086 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004087- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4088 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4089- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004090 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004091 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4092 in the affix file separately.
4093 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004094 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004095 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4096 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4097 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4098- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4099 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4100 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4101 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4102 Alternative:
4103 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4104 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4105 affix which is required.
4106- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004107 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004108- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4109 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4110 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004111- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4112 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004113- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4114 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4115- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041168 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4117 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4118 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4119 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004120- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4121 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4122 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4123 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041248 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4125 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041268 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41278 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4128 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041297 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41308 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4131 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4132 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4133 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004134
4135
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004136Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041379 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4138 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041398 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004140 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004141
4142Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004143 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4144 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041458 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4146 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041478 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4148 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041498 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4150 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4151 user aware of this?
41528 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4153 commands skip over a closed fold.
41548 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41558 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041567 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004157- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4158 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4159 missing line goes unnoticed.
4160 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004161- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4162 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4163 smoother?
4164- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4165 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004166- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4167 file can contain:
4168 args version.c main.c
4169 edit version.c
4170 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004171- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004172- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4173 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004174- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4175 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004176- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4177 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004178- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004179
4180Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004181- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4182 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4183 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4184 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041859 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4186 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4187 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4188 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041899 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4190 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4191 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041928 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4193 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4194 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4195 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4196 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4197 item.
41988 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004199 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4200 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042018 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4202 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042038 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4204 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4205 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042067 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4207 so that the user can fix the problem.
42088 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4209 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042109 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42118 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042128 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42138 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042147 Searching and composing characters:
4215 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004216 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4217 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042188 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42198 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42208 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4221 characters.
42228 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42238 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4224 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42257 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4226 'display' option to specify this.
42277 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4228 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4229- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4230 fontselector somehow.
4231- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4232 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4233- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4234 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4235- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4236 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4237 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4238 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4239 if a font exists?
4240- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004241 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004242- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4243 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004244- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4245 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4246 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4247 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004248- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4249 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004250 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4252 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4253 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4254 But it's very complicated...
4255
4256
4257Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042587 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004259- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4260- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4261 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004262- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4263 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004264- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4265- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4266 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004267- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4268 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004269- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4270 units as for the margins.
4271- Support right-to-left text?
42728 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4273 color.
4274
4275
4276Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042778 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4278 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42798 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4280 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42818 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4282 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042837 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4284 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042858 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4286 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4287 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042887 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4289 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4290 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042918 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42929 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4293 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042947 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4295 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042967 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4297 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042988 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4299 change this for each release.
43008 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4301 pattern, but not in the body.
43028 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4303 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4304 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043058 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043068 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004307 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4308 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043098 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4310 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43118 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4312 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004313 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043148 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4315 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4316 used.
43178 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4318 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43198 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4320 re-insert the [] if possible.
43218 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4322 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043238 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4324 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4325 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4326 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4327 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043288 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4329 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43308 Support for deleting syntax items:
4331 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4332 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4333 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43348 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4335 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4336 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43377 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4338 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4339 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43407 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4341 detected.
43428 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004343 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043448 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4345 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043468 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43478 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43487 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4349 ":mkvimrc".
43508 Improve c.vim:
4351 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4352 "c_strict_ansi".
4353 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43548 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4355 current line while in Insert mode.
43568 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4357 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43588 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4359 display position.
43608 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4361 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4362 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43638 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4364 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4365 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043667 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4367 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4368 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4369 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4370 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043717 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4372 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4373 E.g. for this html:
4374 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043757 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43767 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4377 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043788 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43798 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043807 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4381 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4382 completion?
43838 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4384 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43857 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4386 select one of the sets.
43878 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4388 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4389 2, etc.
43908 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4391 highlighting (for "." command).
43928 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4393 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43948 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43957 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4396 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43976 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4398 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4399- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4400 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4401- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004402- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4403 (for comment blocks).
4404- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4405 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4406 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4407 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4408 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4409 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4410 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4411 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4412 (Campbell)
4413 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4414 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44157 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4416 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44177 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4418 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4419 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44207 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4421 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4422 messages. And external commands?
44238 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4424 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44257 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4426 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4427
4428
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004429Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044308 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4431 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004432 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044337 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4434 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4435 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004436- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044378 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4438 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4439 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4440 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4441 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4442 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044437 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4444 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044458 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044468 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4447 can be the plugin name.
4448 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4449 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044507 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4451 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4452 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4453 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4454 autocommand.
4455 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4456 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4457 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4458 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044597 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4460 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044616 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4462 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044638 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004464 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4465 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004466 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4467 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4468 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004469 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4470 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4471 3 2002
4472 Only add this when also implemented for
4473 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4474 be used.
4475 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004476 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4477 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4478 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4479 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4480 File.Open..." argument.
4481 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4482 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4483 with properties instead.
4484 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4485 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4486 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004487 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004488 crypt() encrypt string
4489 decrypt() decrypt string
4490 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4491 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004492 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004493 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004494 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004495 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004496 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004497 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4498 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004499 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4500 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004501 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004502 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4503 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4504 to allow the library to execute a command or
4505 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045067 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4507 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45088 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4509 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045108 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4511 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045128 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045136 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045148 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4515 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045168 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4517 option or environment variable.
45188 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045198 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004520 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045217 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4522 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045238 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4524 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45258 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45268 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4527 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4528 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4529 charwise({expr}).
45307 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4531 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4532 buffer for this?
4533 result = scratch(string, command)
4534 result = apply(string, command)
4535 result = execute(string, command)
4536 "command" would use <> notation.
4537 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45387 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004539
4540
4541Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045426 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4543 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4544 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4545 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4546 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4547 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4548 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004549
4550
4551Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045527 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4553 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045547 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4555 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4556 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4557 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045588 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4559 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4560 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4561 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004562 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045638 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45649 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45658 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45667 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4567 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45688 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4569 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4570 when starting up in a color terminal.
45718 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4572 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045738 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4574 function be improved?
45758 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4576 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4577 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4578 this be improved?
45798 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4580 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045817 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4582 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045837 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4584 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45857 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4586 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045877 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4588 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4589 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4590 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4591 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4592 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4593 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045948 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4595 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4596 using strcmp() too often?
45977 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4598 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4599 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4600 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4601 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4602 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46037 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4604 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4605 with an argument that can be messed with.
4606 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4607 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46087 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4609- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46108 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4611 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4612- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4613 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4614- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4615- Do profiling on:
4616 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004617 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4618 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4619 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4620 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4621 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4622 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004623 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046247 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4625 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4626 changed).
4627 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4628 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4629- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4630- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4631 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4632- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4633 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4634 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004635- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4636- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4637 cursor is right of the screen.
46388 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4639 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4640
4641
4642Code size:
46438 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4644- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4645 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46468 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46478 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4648 it.
46497 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4650 left out.
46518 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4652 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046538 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004654
4655
4656Messages:
46578 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4658 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46598 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4660 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46618 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4662 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004663- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4664 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4665- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
46669 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4667 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4668 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4669 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4670 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046718 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4672 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46738 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4674 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4675 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4676 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4677 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4678 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004679- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004680 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046818 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4682 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4683 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4684 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4685 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4686 error messages, printing text, etc.
46878 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4688 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4689 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4690
4691
4692Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004693- screen_line():
4694 - insert/delete character stuff.
4695 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4696- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4697 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4698- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4699 waiting for a character.
47008 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4701 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4702 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004703
4704Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047058 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047066 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4707- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4708 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4709 windows.
47107 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4711 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4712 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4713- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4714 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4715 (Goldfarb)
4716- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4717 bound windows.
4718- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4719 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004720- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004721- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4722 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4723 of lines but not with a single line).
4724
4725
4726Autoconf:
47278 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47288 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4729 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4730- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4731 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4732- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4733- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4734- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4735
4736
4737Perl interface:
47388 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047397 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47407 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47416 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4742
4743
4744Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047458 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4746 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047476 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4748 :libload internal-name libname
4749 :libunload internal-name
4750 :liblist
4751 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4752 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4753 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47546 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4755
4756
4757Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047589 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4759 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4760 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4761 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4762 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047638 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4764 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4765 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004766 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004767 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047687 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4769 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4770 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047718 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47728 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4773 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047747 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4775 window for each tag.
47767 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47777 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4778 bottom" search message.
47797 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4780 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4781 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004782- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4783- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004784- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4785 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4786 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047877 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4788 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4789 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4790 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47917 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4792 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4793 :tagargs clear
4794 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4795 matching).
47967 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4797 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4798 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4799 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48007 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4801 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48027 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4803 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4804 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004805
4806
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004807Win32 GUI:
48088 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4809 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048107 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4811 (Mike McCollister)
48128 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4813 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4814 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4815 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4816 common part of the path.
48178 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48188 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4819 gettext and menus work.
48208 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4821 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004822 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004823 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48248 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4825 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48268 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4827 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48287 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4829 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48307 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48317 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48327 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4833 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4834 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4835 prompts.
48367 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4837 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4838 the file added into an already running Vim.
48397 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4840 functions to find the window title.
4841
4842
4843GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048447 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48458 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48466 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48478 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4848 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48499 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48507 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48518 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4852 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48538 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4854 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4855 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48568 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4857 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48588 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4859 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4860 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4861 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048627 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48638 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4864 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048657 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4866 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4867 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048688 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48698 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004870 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048718 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48728 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48738 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4874 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4875 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48767 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4877 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4878 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48797 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4880 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48817 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4882 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4883 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4884 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048857 Should support multi-column menus.
4886- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4887 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4888- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48898 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48906 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4891 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48927 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48937 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4894 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4895 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48967 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48978 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4898 name can be chosen free.
48997 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4900 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49016 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4902 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4903 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4904 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4905 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4906 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4907 things.
49087 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4909 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049107 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004911 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004912- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4913 where it was started from?
49147 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4915
4916
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004917Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049189 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4919 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004920- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049218 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4922 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4923 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4924 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49258 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4926 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049277 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4928 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4929 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4930 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049317 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049328 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4933 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049348 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4935 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4936 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049377 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4938 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4939 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049408 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4941 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4942 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049438 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4944 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049458 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049466 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4947 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049487 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049497 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004950 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4951 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4952 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049535 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4954 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4955 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49567 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4957 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4958 file.
49598 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4960 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4961 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004962- Add events to autocommands:
4963 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004964 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004965 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4966 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004967 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004968 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004969 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4970 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4971 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4972 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004973 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004974 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4975 the char.
4976 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4977 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4978 file from CVS).
4979 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4980 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4981 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4982 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4983 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4984 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004985 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4986 changes.
4987 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4988 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004989- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004990 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004991 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004992 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4993 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4994 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4995 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4996 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4997
4998
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004999Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005000- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5001 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005002- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5003 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5004 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5005 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5006 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005007- Ideas from others:
5008 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5009 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5010 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5011 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5012 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5013 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5014 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5015 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5016 Uses Perl for C++.
5017 Uses ctags to find the info:
5018 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5019 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5020 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5021 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5022 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5023 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005024 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005025 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5026- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5027
5028
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005029Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005030- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050317 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5032 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050337 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5034 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5035 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050368 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5037 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50389 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5039 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5040 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050418 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5042 - ignore/match case
5043 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050448 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5045 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5046 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5047 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5048 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5049 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050508 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050517 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5052 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050538 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5054 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5055 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5056 Should work for C++ and Java.
5057 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50587 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50597 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5060 instead of words.
50618 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50628 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5063 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50648 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5065 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005066- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5067 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005068- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5069 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5070 wildcards in the file name)?
5071- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5072- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5073- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5074 be in another file).
5075- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5076- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5077- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5078 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5079- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5080- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5081- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005082- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5083
5084
5085Command line editing:
50867 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5087 line.
50888 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5089 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5090 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5091- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5092 lines wraps to start of line).
5093- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5094 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5095 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5096 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5097 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5098 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5099 cmdwin does now already.
5100 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5101 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5102 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5103 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5104 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5105 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5106 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5107 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5108 Problems:
5109 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5110 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5111 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5112 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5113 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5114 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5115 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5116 character in first column?
5117 - Implementation ideas:
5118 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5119 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5120 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5121 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5122 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5123 Mode.
5124
5125
5126Command line completion:
51278 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51288 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5129 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51308 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5131 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051328 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5133 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051347 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5135 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005136- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5137- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5138 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051398 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5140 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51417 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5142 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5143- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5144 identifiers (Webb).
51458 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5146 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51477 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5148 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5149- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5150 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5151- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5152 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5153 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005154
5155
5156Command line history:
5157- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5158 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5159 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005160 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005161- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5162 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5163
5164
5165Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051669 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5167 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5168 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051698 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5170 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5171 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5172 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5173 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051748 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5175 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5176 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051777 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5178 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005179- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051807 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5181 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5182- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5183 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5184 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5185 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5186 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5187 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5188- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5189 Normal mode.
5190- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5191 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5192 are used.
5193- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5194- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5195- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5196
5197
5198'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051999 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5200 char * veryLongName =
5201 "very long string"
5202 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052038 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052048 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5205 long_type foo =
5206 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052078 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5208 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005209 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052108 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5211 func(
5212 new String[] {
5213 "asdf",
5214 "asdf"
5215 }
5216 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052178 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5218 (Chow Loong Jin)
5219 namespace {
5220 int
5221 func(int arg) {
5222 }
5223 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052246 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5225 func( arg1
5226 , arg2
5227 , arg3
5228 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052297 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005230 func(
5231 int x) // indent like "(4"
5232 {
5233 if (a
5234 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052359 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5236 if (a)
5237 {
5238 if (b)
5239 {
5240 // {
5241 }
5242 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005243 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5244 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5245 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005246- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005247 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52487 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5249- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5250 line).
5251- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5252- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5253 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005254- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5255 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5256- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5257 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5258- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5259- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5260 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52618 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5262 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5263 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5264- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5265- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5266 lines start with "\item".
5267- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5268 /* here is a comment that
5269 is just autoindented, and
5270 nothing else */
5271- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52727 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5273 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5274 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005275 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005276
5277
5278Java:
52798 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5280 Odendahl?
52818 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5282 "[i" commands and friends.
5283- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5284 (Jason)
5285- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5286 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5287
5288
5289'comments':
52908 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5291 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5292 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5293 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005294 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5295 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052967 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5297 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52987 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52996 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5300 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5301 regexp is used.
53028 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5303 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5304
5305
5306Virtual edit:
53078 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053087 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5309
5310
5311Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053128 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053138 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053148 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005315 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053168 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5317 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005318 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5319 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053208 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053218 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5322 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053238 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5324 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5325 the end of the line or before a ".".
53267 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5327 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53287 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5329 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053306 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53315 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5332 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5333 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5334 cursor is on.
5335
5336
5337Select mode:
53388 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5339 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53407 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005341 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053427 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5343 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5344 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5345 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5346 normal_cmd().
5347 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5348 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5349
5350
5351Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053528 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5353 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005354- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5355 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5356 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005357- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5358 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5359 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053608 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005361 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005362 where needed.
53637 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5364 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53657 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5366 of each selected line.
53678 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53688 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5369 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5370 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53718 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5372 Ben Godfrey)
53737 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5374 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53757 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5376 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053777 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005378 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005379 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53808 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5381 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53827 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5383 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5384 option!
53857 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5386 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5387 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5388 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5389 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5390 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5391 without changing the column.
53926 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053937 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5394 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053956 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5396 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53976 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053986 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005399 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005400 or other special character.
54016 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5402
5403
5404More advanced repeating commands:
5405- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005406- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005407- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005408 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5409 "y." will repeat last yank.
5410 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5411 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5412 and/or pick an older command.
5413- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5414
5415
5416Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054178 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5418 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5419 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54208 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54217 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5422 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054238 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5424 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54258 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054267 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054278 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5428 entering search strings.
54298 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5430 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5431 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054328 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5433 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054347 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054357 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5436 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054376 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5438 abbreviations are to be used.
5439- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5440 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5441 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005442- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5443 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5444 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5445 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5446 Or implicit:
5447 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005448- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5449 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5450 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005451- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5452 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5453- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5454 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54556 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5456 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5457 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5458 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005459- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5460 non-replace Insert mode?
5461- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005462- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5463- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5464 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5465- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005466 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005467- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5468 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5469- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5470- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5471 ":freekeys".
5472- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5473
5474
5475Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005476- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5477 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5478- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5479 folds when going to another line.
5480 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5481- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5482 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005483- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5484 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5485 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005486- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5487 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5488 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5489 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054909 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5491 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005492
5493
5494Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054959 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054968 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005497 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005498 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005499 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005500 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055019 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5502 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055038 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5504 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055058 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5506 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5507 Perl does it this way:
5508 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5509 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5510 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5511 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055128 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5513 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5514 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055157 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5516 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055178 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5518 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055197 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005520 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5521 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5522 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055237 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005524 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055257 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5526 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055278 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5528 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55298 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5530 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055317 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005532 example.
55338 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5534 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5535- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5536 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5537 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5538 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055398 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5540 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5541 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55427 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5543 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055447 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5545 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055468 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5547 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055488 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5549 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055508 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5551 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5552 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5553 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005554- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5555 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005556- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5557 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5558- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5559 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5560 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5561 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055628 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5563 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005564- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5565 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055668 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5567 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5568 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005569- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5570 i ignore case
5571 I use case
5572 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5573 v use Vi regexp syntax
5574 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5575 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5576 Perl uses these too:
5577 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5578 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5579 o compile only once (Perl only)
5580 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5581 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5582 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5583 following command.
5584 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5585- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5586 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5587 for search string)?
55887 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5589 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5590- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5591 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5592- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5593 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5594- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5595- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005596 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005597 a for the next file in the argument list
5598 f for file in the buffer list
5599 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005600 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5601 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005602 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5603 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5604- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056057 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005606 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056077 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5608 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5609 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5610 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56116 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5612 effects.
56137 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5614 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5615 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056167 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005617 Also ":dselect".
5618
5619
5620Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056219 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5622 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5623 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056249 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5625 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056268 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5627 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056288 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5629 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5630 timestamp?
5631 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5632 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005633- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5634 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005635- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5636 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5637 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56388 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5639 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5640 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5641 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56428 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5643 only remember the lines that really changed.
56447 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5645 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5646 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5647 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005648- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5649 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5650- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5651 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5652- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5653 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5654 [-99].
5655- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5656- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005657- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5658 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5659
5660
5661Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056627 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5663 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5664 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5665 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56668 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5667 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56688 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5669 inode too.
56707 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005671 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5672 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056737 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5674 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5675- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5676 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5677- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5678 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56797 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5680 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56817 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5682 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56838 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056847 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5685 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056868 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5687 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5688 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005689
5690
5691Swap (.swp) files:
56928 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5693 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5694 there are short file name problems.
56958 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5696 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56978 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56988 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005699 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005700 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5701 file the same as the actual file?
5702 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057037 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5704 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57057 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005706 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5708 enough room.
57097 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5710 or /var/preserve.
5711- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5712 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5713- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005714 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005715- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5716 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5717 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5718 cached list of which line is where.
5719
5720
5721Viminfo:
57227 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5723 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5724 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057258 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5726 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5727 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057288 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5729 name. (Schild)
57308 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57318 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057328 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057338 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5734 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5735 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5736 this?
57377 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57387 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5739 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57406 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5741 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5742 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5743- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5744 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5745
5746
5747Modelines:
57488 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5749 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5750 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005751- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5752 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5753 'shiftwidth'.
5754- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5755 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005756- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5757 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5758 modeline setting.
5759- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5760 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5761- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5762 .cpp files.
5763- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5764 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5765- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5766 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5767
5768
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005769Sessions:
57708 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5771 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57727 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5773 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057748 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5775 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057768 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5777 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5778 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057797 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5780 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057817 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005782
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005783
5784Options:
57857 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5786 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057878 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5788 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5789 also be supported.
57908 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5791 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5792 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57937 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005794
5795
5796External commands:
57978 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5798 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57994 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5800 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5801 -f).
58024 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58034 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5804 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58054 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5806
5807
5808Multiple Windows:
58097 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58108 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5811 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58127 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5813 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5814 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058157 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5816 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058177 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5818 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058196 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5820 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005821 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005822 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58237 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5824 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5825 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5826 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5827- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5828 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5829 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5830 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5831
5832
5833Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058348 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058358 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5836 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058378 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 +000058388 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5839 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58408 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5841 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5842 the mark was set.
58437 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5844 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5845 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5846 ":browse marks"?
58476 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058487 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5849 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58507 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5851 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58527 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5853 command).
58547 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5855 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5856 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5857 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58585 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5859 mappings.
58606 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5861 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5862 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5863
5864
5865Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058667 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005867 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005868- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5869 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058708 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058717 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5872 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5873
5874
5875Writing files:
5876- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5877 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5878 shortname conversion.
58798 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58808 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5881 file.
58828 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5883 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5884 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058856 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5886 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58876 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5888 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58896 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5890 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058918 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005892 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58937 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5894 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58957 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5896 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5897 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5898 waiting for a character to be typed).
58998 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5900 line of the window, like "[time]".
5901 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5902 Automatic and/or with a command.
5903
5904
5905Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059068 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5907 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059088 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5910- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5911- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59128 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5913 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005914- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005915 :s///N substitutes N times.
5916- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5917 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5918 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59197 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5920 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5921 last line column 5.
59225 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5923 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5924 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5925 (Stanislav Sitar)
5926
5927
5928Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059298 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59307 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59318 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5932 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5933 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5935- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5936 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5937- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5938- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5939
5940
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005941Argument list:
59426 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5943 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5944 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59456 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5946
5947
5948Registers:
59498 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059508 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5951 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5952 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005953- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5954 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5955- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5956 leader when line wraps?
5957- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5958 line in the range.
5959- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5960 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59618 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5962 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005963
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005964
5965Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059668 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059678 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059687 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59697 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5970
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005971Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059727 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5973 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5974 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5975 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5976 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5977 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5978 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005979 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059807 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5981 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059827 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5983 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059848 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5985 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059867 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5987 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5988 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005989- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005990 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059917 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5992 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59938 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059947 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5995 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59968 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5997 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059986 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059998 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6000 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6001 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6002 in this Vim.
60038 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006004 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060058 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6006 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6007 have it apply to the following command.
60088 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6009 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6010 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6011 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060127 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6013 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060147 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6015 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6016 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6017 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060186 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60198 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60209 Support ACLs on more systems.
60217 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6022 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060237 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6024 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6025 (truncated to fit in the space).
60267 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60278 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60288 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6029 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060307 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006031 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60327 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6033 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060347 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060357 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60367 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060378 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60388 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6039 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6040 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6041 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60428 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060438 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060448 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6045 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6046 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6047 does something like this. (Shah)
60487 Use growarray for replace stack.
60497 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6050 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60513 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060527 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6053 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060547 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6055 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006056- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6057- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6058- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6059- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60607 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6061 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6062- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6063 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006064- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006065- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6066 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6067- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6068 call "play newbeep.au").
6069- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6070 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6071 (Bhatt).
6072- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6073 blockwise registers).
6074- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6075 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6076- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6077 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6078 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6079 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006080- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060817 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6082 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6083- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6084 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6085 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6086 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6087 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060888 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6089 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060908 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6091 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6092 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6093 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6094 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6095- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006096- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060977 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6098 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6099- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6100 not in column 1.
61016 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6102 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61037 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6104- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006105- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006106 :redir #> bufname
6107 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006108- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6109 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006110- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6111 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6112 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61136 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6114 console? (Klaus Hast)
6115- Add :delcr command:
6116 *:delcr*
6117 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6118 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6119 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6120 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6121 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006122 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006123- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6124- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6125 characters from 'isprint'.
6126- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6127- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6128 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6129- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6130 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6131 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6132- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6133- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6134 Nvi).
6135- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6136 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61377 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6138- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6139 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61406 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6141- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6142 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6143 macro).
6144- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006145- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6146 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6147- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61488 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006149- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6150- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6151- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6152 if it is not the first or last window.
6153- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6154 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61557 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6156 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6157 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6158- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6159- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006160 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006161 many percent down the windows).
6162- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6163 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6164 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006165 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6167 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6168- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6169 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6170- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6171- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6172- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6173 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061748 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6175 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6176 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6177 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6178 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006179- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6180 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6181- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006182 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6183- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006184 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6185 (Webb).
6186- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006187 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006188- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6189 hex codes like 0xff).
6190- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6191 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6192 the last TYPED command.
6193- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6194- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6195- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6196 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006197- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061988 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6199 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6200 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006201- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006202 trailing '.'.
6203- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6204 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6205 find_file_in_path().
6206- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6207 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6208- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6209- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6210 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6211- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006212 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006213- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6214 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6215 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006216- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6217- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6218- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6219 to the minimal size.
6220- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6221- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6222- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6223- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6224- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6226 entered)?
6227- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6228 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006229- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6231- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6232- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6233- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6234- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6235 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006236- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062378 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6238 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6239 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6240 or in octal.
62417 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6242 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006243- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006244 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6245- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6246- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6247 insert line command).
6248- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6249- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6250- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6251- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6252- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6253 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006254- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006255 yet.
6256- Implement 'redraw' option.
6257- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6258 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062597 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6260 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006261 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6262 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062638 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6264 do it.
6265- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6266- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6267 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6268- Add text justification option.
6269- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6270- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6271 off".
6272- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6273- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6274- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006275 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006276- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006277- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006278- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6279 commands.
6280- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6281- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6282- :table command (Webb)
6283- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006284- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6285- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6286- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6287- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6288- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6289 (Demirel).
6290- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6291- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6292 for use in macro's and the like.
6293- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006294 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006295- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006296 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006297- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006298 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006299 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6300- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6301 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006302- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006303 mkopttab to make option table?
6304- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6305 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6306- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6307 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006308- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006309 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6310- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6311 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006312- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063138 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6314 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6315 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6316 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6317 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063188 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6319 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6320 (Netherton)
63216 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6322 space after "(", for example.
63235 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6324 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6325 (Servatius Brandt)
6326
6327
6328From Elvis:
6329- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6330- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006331- Search patterns:
6332 \@ match word under cursor.
6333 but do:
6334 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6335 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63368 ":window" command:
6337 :win + next window (up)
6338 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6339 :win - previous window (down)
6340 :win -- idem, wrapping
6341 :win nr to window number "nr"
6342 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63437 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6344 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6345
6346
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006347From xvi:
6348- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6349- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6350
6351
6352From vile:
6353- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6354- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6355 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6356
6357
6358Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006359- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6360 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006361 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006362 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6363 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006364- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6365 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6366- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6367 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6368 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6369 current layout mirrored.
6370- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6371- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6372 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6373- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6374- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6375 font in each top-level window.
6376- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6377- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6378- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6379- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6380 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006381- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6382 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6383- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6384 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63854 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6386 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6387 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6388 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006389 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006390 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6391 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6392- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6393 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6394 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6395
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006396vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006397vim: set fo+=n :