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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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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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30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033For version 7.0:
34- Include many PATCHES:
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000035 8 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000036 - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu
37 Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20)
38 Updated patch: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/special/index.html
39 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ):
40 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs.
41 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like
42 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to
43 separate the from and to part is optional.
44 Resp: no time now.
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15,
46 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch)
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +000047 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
48 Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
49 He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000050 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that
51 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode).
52 :au Event <buffer> do-something
53 E.g.:
54 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ...
55 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ...
56 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7).
57 He'll send updated patch.
58 Autocommands:
59 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
60 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
61 He'll write documentation and send updated patch.
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +000062 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
63 Update 2004 Jun 17.
64 How does this work? Missing comments.
65 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
66 Update 2004 Jun 17
67 Missing docs. Search in 'runtimepath'?
68 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +000069 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that
70 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9).
71 And the ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9)
72 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch
73 ~/tmp/ptch.delmark.bz2
74 ~/tmp/ptch.markclear
75 Implement setmark(markname, lnum, col [, filename]) instead?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000076 --- responses above --
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000077 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
78 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
79 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
80 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki
81 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then.
82 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from
83 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11.
84 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
85 (28 feb 2002).
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000086 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
87 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000088 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
89 for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000090 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
91 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
92 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
93 been given values.
94 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
95 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
96 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors .
97 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin
98 Dalecki has a patch for Motif)
99 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
100 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth').
101 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000102 8 Add functions:
103 tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8
104 2004)
105 strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet,
106 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX)
107 Alt: repeat(expr, count) werkt ook voor lists.
108 mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross
109 Presser)
110 He will send a new patch.
111 Is this really useful?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000112 multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character.
113 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +0000114 Update June 18 (third one).
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000115 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
116 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
117 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
118 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
119 File.Open..." argument.
120 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
121 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
122 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
123 match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +0000124 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Jun 19
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000125 find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes
126 Zellner 2001 Dec 20)
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +0000127 Update 2004 Jun 16.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000128 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
129 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
130 3 2002)
131 getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx"
132 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13)
133 getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"?
134 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13)
135 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan
136 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21)
137 winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai
138 Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from
139 Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2003 Aug 31)
140 search() Add optional offset argument.
141 Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull
142 2003 Jan 13)
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000143 ---
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000144 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
145 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
146 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
147 (2003 May 13)
148 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command
149 {cmd} and return the result.
150 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
151 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
152 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000153 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
154 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
155 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching
156 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan.
157 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002
158 Jan 11.
159 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000160 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked
161 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from
162 Yegappan Lakshmanan.
163 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
164 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000165 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
166 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23.
167 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
168 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000169 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different
170 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan
171 has a patch, 2002 feb 15)
172 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
173 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
174 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
175 Kotchan has a patch for it)
176 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in
177 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way
178 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each
179 individual modified key.
180 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37,
181 with modifiers.
182 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
183 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
184 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000185 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
186 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
187 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
188 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000189
190
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000191- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting.
192- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others?
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +0000193- Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +0000194- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000195- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be
196 incremented/decremented each time.
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000197- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000198- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000199 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000200 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt.
201- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000202 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow.
203 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes
204 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell".
205 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for
206 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/).
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000207 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to
208 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains
209 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change
210 the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
211 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several
212 times later. Sort of global syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000213- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate
214 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004
215 Feb 9).
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000216- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific
217 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific
218 code menu, toolbar, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000219- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less"
220 like commands.
221- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion.
222 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
223 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
224- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
225 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able
226 to select a version.
2277 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix",
228 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for
229 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17)
230 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an
231 incompatible change.
2327 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own
233 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6.
234 Also for the console!
235- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
236 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow().
237 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget.
238- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
239 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
240- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye,
241 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it
242 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb
243 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
244 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
245 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
246 other window.
247 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
248 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
249 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
250 in terminal mode.
251- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
252 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
253 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00002548 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000255- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
256 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
257- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
258 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt.
259- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000260- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27)
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00002618 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
262 New patch 2004 Jun 16
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00002639 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
264 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
265 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
266 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group
267 instead.
268 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
269 line.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00002707 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
271 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000272
273Vi incompatibility:
2748 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
275 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
276 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
277 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
278 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
279 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
2808 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to
281 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line.
282 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16)
2838 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon
284 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY.
2858 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
286 make Vim exit.
2877 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
288 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
289 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
2908 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
291 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
292 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
2936 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
294 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
295 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
2968 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
297 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
298 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
299 names in one buffer???
300 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
301 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
302 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
3037 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
304 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
305 command was one command.
3067 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
307 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
3087 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
3097 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
3107 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
311 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
3127 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
313 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
314 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
315 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
3167 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
3177 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
3187 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
319 to the match with the tag? Option?
3207 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
3217 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
322 (Sayre).
3237 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
324 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003257 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
326 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
327 match. Nvi can do it too.
3287 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
329 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
330 line 1\ line 2\\
331 line 2\ line 3\\
332 . line4/
3336 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
334 the way the shell is started?
3356 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
336 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
337
338
339GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
3408 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops
341 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL
342 pointer if the menu was never displayed.
3438 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
344 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
345 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
346 the minimal window width?
3478 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
348 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
3498 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
350 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
351
352GTK+ GUI known bugs:
3538 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
354 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
355 creating a label?
3569 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
357 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
358 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
359 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
3607 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1).
361
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000362KDE GUI known bugs:
363- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly.
364- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty.
365- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000366
367Win32 GUI known bugs:
3688 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
369 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
3708 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
371 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
372 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
3738 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
374 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
3757 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
376 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
377 "lucida_console:h8").
3786 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
379 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
3807 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
381 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
382 to use an opaque background in most places?
3838 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
384 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
385 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
3868 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
387 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
388 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
3897 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
390 2004 May 9)
3918 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
392 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
393 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
394 MS-Windows 98?
395 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
396 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
397 file: Window moves with the cursor!
398 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
3998 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to
400 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004018 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
402 appear. (Sami Salonen)
4038 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo)
4048 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
405 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
406 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
407 doesn't work properly.
4088 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
409 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
410 appears in the right position. (Webb)
4119 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
412 button doesn't give popup menu.
413 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
414 selection.
415 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
416 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
417 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
4188 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
419 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
420 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
421 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
4228 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
423 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
424 be read.
4258 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to
426 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return).
427 Use a scrollable window.
4287 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
429 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
430 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
4317 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
432 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
433 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse
434 anyway.
4357 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
436 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
4377 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
438 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
4396 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
4408 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
441 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
442 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
4438 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
444 know which keyboard is being used?
4457 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
446 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
447 area (Koloseike).
4488 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
449 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
450 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
451 the font name).
452
453
454Athena and Motif:
4559 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
456 required and it's missing?
4578 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
458 wrong.
4599 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
460 be off by default.
4619 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
462 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
463 flag.
4648 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
465 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
466 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
4678 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
4686 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
469 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
470 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
471 the tooltips work though...
4727 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
473 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
4748 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
475 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
476 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
477
478
479Athena GUI:
4809 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
481 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
482 through files.
4837 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
484 read long file names. (Schroeder)
4854 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
486 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
487 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
488 problem during a refresh.
4895 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
490 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
491 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
492 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
493 colors as it should.
494 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
495 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
496
497
498Motif GUI:
4998 Popup menu ordering is wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005007 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
501 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
5028 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font.
5038 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
504 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
505 (Phillipps)
506
507
508GUI:
5099 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
510 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
5119 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
512 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
513 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
5149 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
515 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
5168 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
517 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
5188 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
519 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
520 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
5218 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
522 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
523 of where it is processing the output.
524 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
5258 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
526 doesn't work.
5278 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
5288 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005298 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
530 browse().
5318 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
532 use that code? Or use console dialog.
5338 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
534 error message disappears too quick.
5358 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
536 to avoid problems.
5378 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
538 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
539 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
5408 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
541 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
542 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
5438 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
544 up. Set erase character somehow?
5458 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
546 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
547 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
548 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
5498 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
5507 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
551 visible.
5527 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
553 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
5547 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
555 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
5568 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
557 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
5588 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
559 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
560 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
561 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
562- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
5634 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
564 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
565 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
566
567
568MSDOS/DJGPP:
5699 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
570 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
571 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
5728 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
573 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
5749 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
575 code and reduce static data.
5769 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
577 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
578 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
579 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
5809 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
581 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
582 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
583 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
584 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
585 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
586 Make this work like in Win32 console.
587 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
588 key code. Use a translation table?
5899 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
590 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
5918 Use DJGPP 2.03.
5928 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
593 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
5948 setlocale() is bogus.
5958 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
596 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
597 Windows 95 system!
5988 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
5997 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088
600 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
6017 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
602 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
603 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
6048 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
605 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
6067 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
607 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
608 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
609 "[New file]".
6107 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
611 that is supported?
6128 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
6138 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
614 Briscoe)
615
616
617MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
6188 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
619 gen_expand_wildcards().
6208 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
621 Wagner.
6228 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
6238 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
624 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
6258 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH?
6268 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
627 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
6288 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
629 Should work like in the GUI version.
6308 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
631 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
6328 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
633 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
6348 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
635 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
636 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
6378 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb"
638 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
6398 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
640 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
641 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
642
643
644Windows 95:
6458 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
646 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
647 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
6488 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
649 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
650
651
652Win32 console:
6539 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
654 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
655 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
656 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
657 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
658 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
659 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
660 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
661 and the file is not saved.
662 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
663 long name.
6648 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
665 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
6667 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
667 besides the console.
6688 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
6699 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
670 <C-S-i>?
6719 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
672 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
6738 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
674 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006757 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
676 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
677 exiting.
678
679
680Amiga:
6818 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
682 sequences.
6839 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
684 backslashes in result.
6858 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
686 all options, using white space separation.
687
688
689Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00006907 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
691 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
692 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006937 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
694 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
695 (Jack)
696 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
6978 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
698 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
6998 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007009 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
701 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
7028 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
7038 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
7048 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
7058 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
7069 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
707 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
7089 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
709 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
7109 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
711 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
7129 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
7138 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
7148 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
715
716
717"Small" problems:
7188 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
719 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
720 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
721 the ATTENTION message shows up.
7229 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
723 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
724 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
725 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
7268 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
727 error number, it's not a regular error message.
7287 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
729 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
7308 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
731 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
732 for redirection.
7337 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local
734 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses
735 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"?
7367 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored.
737 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often
738 when compiled with Python (threading).
7397 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
740 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007418 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
742 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
743 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
744 using the horizontal scrollbar.
7457 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
746 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
747 invocations belong together.
7488 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
749 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
7508 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
751 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
752 UnxUtils.zip archive.
753 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
754 Briscoe says it's not as good.
7558 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters.
7569 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from
757 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with
758 syntax highlighting is also very slow.
759 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters?
7608 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
761 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
7627 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
763 use "~/" when possible.
7648 After using diff mode, ":set nodiff" doesn't restore the old foldmethod.
765 (Thomas S. Urban)
7667 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
767 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
768 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
769 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
7708 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
771 defined.
7727 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
773 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
774 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
7757 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
776 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
777 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
7787 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
779 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
7807 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown)
7817 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
782 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
7839 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes
784 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument.
785 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely)
7869 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
787 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
788 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
789 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
790 script can be called.
7918 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
792 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
793 works.
7949 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use
795 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained
796 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002.
7978 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
798 CTRL-C.
7997 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
800 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
801 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
802 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
803 won't work for GTK anyway.
8048 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
805 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
8068 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
807 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
808 configurable?
8098 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
8109 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
811 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
812 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
8138 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
814 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
8158 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
816 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
8178 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
818 always written, even when the original file already exists.
8197 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
820 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
8219 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
822 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
823 written.
8249 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an
825 error number.
8267 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008278 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
828 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
829 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
8308 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
831 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
8329 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
833 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
834 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
835 one.
8367 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the
837 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a
838 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory
839 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special
840 character like ">".
8417 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
842 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
8437 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
844 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
8457 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
846 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
847 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
848 direction, not horizontally?
8498 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
850 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
8518 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000852 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
853 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
854 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
855 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000856 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
857 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
858 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
859 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
860 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
861 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
862 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
863 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
8648 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
865 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
8669 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
867 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
868 that Windows NT is being used?
8698 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no
870 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using
871 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8.
872 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file?
8738 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
874 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
8758 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
876 in lines that don't extend into the block?
8778 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
878 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
879 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
8808 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
881 'linebreak'.
8828 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
883 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
884 (Helmut Stiegler)
8858 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
886 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
8879 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
888 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
889 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
890 'magic' in history. (Margo)
8919 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
892 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
8939 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
894 isn't updated).
8959 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
8969 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
897 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
898 cause another redraw, etc.
8998 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
900 must escape special characters in the pattern.
9018 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
902 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
903 ":w!!" for that.
904 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
905 restore file to readonly afterwards.
9067 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
907 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
908 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
909 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
910 clipboard)
9117 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
912 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
913 Waggoner)
9148 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
915 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
916 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
9178 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
918 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
9198 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
920 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
921 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
9228 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
923 (e.g., ":w").
9248 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
925 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
9268 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
927 for ">>".
9288 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
929 script in do_cmdline().
9308 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
931 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
932 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
933 changes.
9348 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
935 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
9368 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
937 check for file marks. This can be slow.
9387 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
939 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
940 needed.
941 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
9428 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
943 to skip catch_signals()?
9449 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
945 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
946 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
947 text?
9488 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
949 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
9508 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
951 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
9529 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
953 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
954 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
955 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
956 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
9577 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
958 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
959 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
960 in the list?
9618 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
962 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
963 instead of on button down.
9648 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
9659 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
966 reaching the end of the available buffer.
9678 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
968 character is typed.
9698 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
970 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
9718 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
972 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
9738 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
974 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
975 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
976 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
977 cygwin bash.
9787 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
979 Remember flags for backreferences.
9807 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
981 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
9827 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
983 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
9848 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
985 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
9867 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
987 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009887 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
989 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
990 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
9917 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
992 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
9938 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
994 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
995 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
9967 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
997 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
9987 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still
999 was one line.
1000
1001
1002I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
10039 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1004 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1005 files. (McCollister)
10068 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It
1007 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem.
1008
1009
1010Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
1011- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1012 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1013 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1014 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1015 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1016- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1017 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1018 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1019- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1020 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1021- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1022 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1023 character gets the highlighting.
1024- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1025 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1026- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1027 (Jennings)
1028- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1029- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1030 errors. How do we get the rest?
1031- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
1032- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
1033 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1034- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1035 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1036 first?
1037- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1038 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1039- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1040 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1041 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1042- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1043 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1044 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1045 (Benzinger).
1046- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1047 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1048 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1049- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1050 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1051- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1052 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1053- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1054 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1055 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1056 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1057 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1058 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1059- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1060 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1061 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1062- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1063 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1064 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1065- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1066 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1067- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1068 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1069- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1070 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1071- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1072 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1073- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1074 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1075 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1076 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1077 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1078- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1079 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1080 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1081- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1082 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1083 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001084- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1085 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 +00001086- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1087 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1088 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1089 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1090 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1091- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1092 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1093
1094--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1095 *extensions-improvements*
1096
1097Documentation:
10988 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010997 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
11009 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1101 - change to cursor position and curswant
1102 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1103 - how it works for folded lines
1104 - how it works with multi-byte characters
11059 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1106 work too.
11078 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1108 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1109 text.
11108 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
11117 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1112 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
11137 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1114 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1115- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1116
1117
1118Help:
1119- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1120 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1121- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1122 to the other matches.
1123- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1124- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1125- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1126 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1127 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1128 default contents.
1129- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1130 height for the help window (and other windows).
1131- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1132- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1133- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1134
1135
1136User Friendlier:
11378 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1138 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1139 Briscoe)
11408 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
11418 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1142 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1143 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
11448 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1145 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1146- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1147 ":mkplugin <file>"?
11488 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1149 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1150 'runtimepath'.
1151 " Vim plugin
1152 <main plugin code>
1153 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1154 <plugin docs>
1155- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
11569 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1157 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1158 item?).
1159 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011608 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
11617 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
1162
1163
1164Diff mode:
11658 Add a command to stop diff mode: ":set nodiff fdc = 0 noscrollbind"
11668 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1167 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1168 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
11697 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1170 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1171 location.
1172
1173
1174Folding:
1175 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY;
1176 secondary: zB zS zT zZ)
11778 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1178 (Noel Henson)
11798 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1180 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1181 user aware of this?
11828 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1183 commands skip over a closed fold.
11848 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
11858 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
11867 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When
1187 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting.
1188 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10.
11897 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
1190- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in
1191 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed.
1192- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
1193 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
1194 smoother?
1195- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
1196 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
1197- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
1198- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
1199- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to
1200 implement this?
1201- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
1202 cursor.
1203- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region.
1204- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to
1205 implement this?
1206- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
1207- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
1208 searches.
1209
1210
1211Multi-byte characters:
12129 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
1213 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
1214 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
1215 byte).
12168 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
1217 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
1218 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
1219 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
1220 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
1221 item.
12228 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
1223 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
12248 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
1225 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
1226 ":grep".
12278 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
1228 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
12297 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
1230 so that the user can fix the problem.
12318 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
1232 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012339 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
12348 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012358 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
12368 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012378 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2.
12387 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
12398 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
12408 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
12418 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
1242 characters.
12438 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
12448 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
1245 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
12467 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
1247 'display' option to specify this.
12487 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
1249 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
1250- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
1251 fontselector somehow.
1252- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
1253 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
1254- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
1255 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
1256- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
1257 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
1258 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
1259 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
1260 if a font exists?
1261- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
1262 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI.
1263- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
1264 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
12657 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
1266 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
1267- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
1268- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
1269 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
1270- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
1271 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
1272 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
1273- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
1274 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
1275 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
1276 But it's very complicated...
1277
1278
1279Printing:
1280- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
1281- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
1282 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
1283- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
1284- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
1285 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001286- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support
1287 different 'encoding' values somehow.
1288- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
1289 units as for the margins.
1290- Support right-to-left text?
12918 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
1292 color.
1293
1294
1295Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012968 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
1297 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
12988 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
1299 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
13008 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
1301 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
13028 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
1303 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
1304 ":wq file".
13058 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
13069 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
1307 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
13087 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with
1309 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table.
1310 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell)
13117 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
1312 Search highlighting.
13138 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
1314 change this for each release.
13158 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
1316 pattern, but not in the body.
13178 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
1318 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
1319 instead of the containing item.
13208 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn
1321 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct.
1322 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell)
13238 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
13248 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
1325 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
1326 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
1327 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
13288 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
1329 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
13308 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
1331 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
1332 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one.
13338 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
13348 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
1335 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
1336 used.
13378 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
1338 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
13398 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
1340 re-insert the [] if possible.
13418 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
1342 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013438 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
1344 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
13458 Support for deleting syntax items:
1346 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
1347 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
1348 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
13498 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
1350 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
1351 a '<'. (Fleiner)
13527 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
1353 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
1354 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
13557 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
1356 detected.
13578 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
1358 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
13598 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
1360 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013618 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
13628 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
13637 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
1364 ":mkvimrc".
13658 Improve c.vim:
1366 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
1367 "c_strict_ansi".
1368 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
13698 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
1370 current line while in Insert mode.
13718 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
1372 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
13738 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
1374 display position.
13758 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
1376 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
1377 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
13788 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
1379 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
1380 highlighting starts.
13817 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
1382 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
1383 E.g. for this html:
1384 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
13857 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
1386 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
1387 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
13887 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
13897 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
1390 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013917 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'.
13928 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
13938 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
13948 Add more command line completion for :sign.
13957 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
1396 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
1397 completion?
13988 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
1399 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
14007 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
1401 select one of the sets.
14028 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
1403 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
1404 2, etc.
14058 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
1406 highlighting (for "." command).
14078 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
1408 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
14098 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
14107 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
1411 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
14126 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
1413 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
1414- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
1415 when extending an already existing syntax file.
1416- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001417- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
1418 (for comment blocks).
1419- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
1420 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
1421 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
1422 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
1423 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
1424 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
1425 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
1426 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
1427 (Campbell)
1428 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
1429 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
14307 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
1431 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
14327 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
1433 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
1434 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
14357 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
1436 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
1437 messages. And external commands?
14388 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
1439 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
14407 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
1441 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
1442
1443
1444Built-in script language:
14458 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
1446 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
14478 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
14488 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for
1449 'shellslash', for example.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014508 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
14518 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
1452 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
1453 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
1454 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
1455 nested packages?
1456 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
1457 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
1458 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
14597 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley)
14607 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
1461 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
1462 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
1463 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
1464 autocommand.
1465 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
1466 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
1467 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
1468 file belongs to a sourced script?
14697 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey
1470 Marinichev)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014717 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
1472 signs and/or 'number'.
14738 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001474 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash???
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001475 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
1476 mkdir(dir) Create directory
1477 copy(from, to) Copy a file
1478 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
1479 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
1480 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion
1481 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
1482 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
1483 Visual block mode.
1484 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists)
1485 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001486 getbufline() get line from any buffer
1487 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
1488 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001489 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also:
1490 ":sort".
1491 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
1492 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
1493 to allow the library to execute a command or
1494 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001495 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX
1496 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX
14977 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
1498 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
14998 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
1500 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
15018 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0?
15028 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
15038 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has
1504 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time.
15057 Add optional arguments to user functions:
1506 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
15076 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
15088 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore.
15098 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
1510 option or environment variable.
15118 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
15127 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the
1513 stack available (separated with '\n').
15148 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
1515 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
15168 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
15178 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
1518 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
1519 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
1520 charwise({expr}).
15217 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
1522 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
1523 buffer for this?
1524 result = scratch(string, command)
1525 result = apply(string, command)
1526 result = execute(string, command)
1527 "command" would use <> notation.
1528 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
15297 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
15307 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
1531 option for the search path. (Sekera)
15327 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001533
1534
1535Robustness:
15368 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch():
1537 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+
1538 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack
1539 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for
1540 more systems?
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000015416 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
1542 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
1543 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
1544 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
1545 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
1546 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
1547 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001548
1549
1550Performance:
15518 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to
1552 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed?
15538 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
15549 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
15558 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
15567 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
1557 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
15588 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
1559 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
1560 when starting up in a color terminal.
15618 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
1562 Win16.
15639 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
1564 redraw.
15658 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
1566 function be improved?
15678 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
1568 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
1569 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
1570 this be improved?
15718 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
1572 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
15737 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding
1574 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
15757 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
1576 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
15777 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
1578 lot of abbreviations).
15797 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
15807 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
1581 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
1582 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
1583 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
1584 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
1585 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
1586 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
15878 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
1588 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
1589 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
1590 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
15918 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
1592 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
1593 using strcmp() too often?
15947 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
1595 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
1596 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
1597 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
1598 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
1599 the two blocks to the memfile block.
16007 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
1601 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
1602 with an argument that can be messed with.
1603 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
1604 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
16057 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
1606- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
16078 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
1608 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
1609- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
1610 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
1611- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
1612- Do profiling on:
1613 - :g/pat/normal cmd
1614 - 1000ii<Esc>
1615 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
1616 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1617 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
1618 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
1619 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
1620 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
1621 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
16227 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
1623 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
1624 changed).
1625 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
1626 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
1627- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
1628- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
1629 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
1630- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
1631 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
1632 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
1633- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
1634 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
1635- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
1636- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
1637 cursor is right of the screen.
16388 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
1639 CTRL-C (it's slow).
1640
1641
1642Code size:
16438 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
1644- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
1645 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
16468 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
16478 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
1648 it.
16497 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
1650 left out.
16518 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
1652 can be removed.
16538 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
1654
1655
1656Messages:
16578 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
1658 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
16598 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
1660 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
16618 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
1662 script.
16638 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output
1664 from messages using printf() go to stdout?
1665- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
1666 Perhaps after ten seconds?
1667- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
16689 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
1669 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
1670 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
1671 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
1672 redrawing.
16737 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which
1674 match that regexp (Tsirkin).
16758 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
1676 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
16778 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
1678 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
1679 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
1680 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
1681 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
1682 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
1683- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
1684 sleep before second message?
16858 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
1686 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
1687 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
1688 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
1689 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
1690 error messages, printing text, etc.
16918 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
1692 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
1693 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
1694
1695
1696Screen updating:
16977 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
1698 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
1699 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
1700- screen_line():
1701 - insert/delete character stuff.
1702 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
1703- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
1704 dragging the status line with the mouse).
1705- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
1706 waiting for a character.
17078 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
1708 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
1709 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
17107 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001711
1712
1713Scrolling:
17148 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
17156 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
1716- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
1717 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
1718 windows.
17197 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
1720 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
1721 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
1722- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
1723 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
1724 (Goldfarb)
1725- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
1726 bound windows.
1727- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
1728 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00001729- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001730- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
1731 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
1732 of lines but not with a single line).
1733
1734
1735Autoconf:
17368 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
17378 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
1738 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
1739- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
1740 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
1741- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
1742- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
1743- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
1744
1745
1746Perl interface:
17478 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017487 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
17497 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
17506 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
1751
1752
1753Shared libraries:
17546 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
1755 :libload internal-name libname
1756 :libunload internal-name
1757 :liblist
1758 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1759 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1760 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
17616 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
1762
1763
1764Tags:
17658 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
1766 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
17678 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag.
1768 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico
1769 Hendriks)
17707 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match
17718 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
17728 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
1773 to type the tag number directly.
17747 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki)
17757 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
1776 window for each tag.
17777 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
17787 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
1779 bottom" search message.
17807 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
1781 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
1782 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
17837 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
1784 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
1785 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
1786 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
17877 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
1788 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
1789 :tagargs clear
1790 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
1791 matching).
17927 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
1793 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
1794 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
1795 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
17967 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
1797 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
17987 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
1799 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
1800 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001801
1802
1803Security:
1804- nothing at the moment
1805
1806
1807Win32 GUI:
18088 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
1809 the message and input?
18107 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1811 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
1812 dynamically?
18137 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
1814 (Mike McCollister)
18158 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
1816 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
1817 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
1818 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
1819 common part of the path.
18208 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
18218 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
1822 gettext and menus work.
18238 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
1824 return in every console.
1825 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
1826 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
18278 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
1828 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
18298 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
1830 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
18317 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
1832 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
18337 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
18347 <Esc> should close a dialog.
18357 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
1836 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
1837 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
1838 prompts.
18397 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
1840 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
1841 the file added into an already running Vim.
18427 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
1843 functions to find the window title.
1844
1845
1846GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018478 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
1848- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
1849 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
18507 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
18518 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
18526 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
18538 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
1854 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
18559 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
18567 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
18578 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
1858 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
18598 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
1860 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
1861 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
18628 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
1863 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
18648 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
1865 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
1866 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
1867 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018687 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
18698 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
1870 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
18717 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character
1872 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly
1873 double-width. (Maeda)
18748 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
18758 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
1876 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a
1877 bit more work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018788 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
18798 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
18808 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
1881 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
1882 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
18837 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
1884 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
1885 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
18867 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
1887 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
18887 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
1889 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
1890 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
1891 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
18927 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
1893 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
18947 Should support multi-column menus.
1895- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
1896 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
1897- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
18988 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
18996 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
1900 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
19017 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
19027 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
1903 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
1904 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
19057 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
19068 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
1907 name can be chosen free.
19087 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
1909 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
19106 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
1911 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
1912 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
1913 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
1914 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
1915 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
1916 things.
19177 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
1918 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
1919- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we
1920 get it back if we want it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001921- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be
1922 changeable with an option?
1923- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?).
19247 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
1925 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
1926- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
1927 where it was started from?
19287 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
1929
1930
1931VMS:
1932- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling.
1933- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK
1934 works just on 7.3).
1935
1936
1937Autocommands:
19389 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't
1939 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes.
1940 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed.
19418 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
1942 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
19438 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
1944 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
1945 difficult).
19468 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode?
19477 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user
1948 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind
1949 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
19508 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event
1951 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a
1952 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively.
19538 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
1954 And anything else?
19558 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
1956 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
1957 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
19588 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
19598 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
1960 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
19616 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
1962 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
19637 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c
1964 file.
19657 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an
1966 autocommand event OpenDirectory.
19677 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
1968 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
1969 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
1970 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
19715 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
1972 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
1973 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
19747 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
1975 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
1976 file.
19778 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
1978 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
1979 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001980- Add events to autocommands:
1981 Error - When an error happens
1982 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
1983 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode
1984 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
1985 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode
1986 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00001987 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001988 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001989 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
1990 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
1991 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
1992 window title)
1993 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
1994 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
1995 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
1996 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
1997 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
1998 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
1999 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2000 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2001 the char.
2002 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2003 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2004 file from CVS).
2005 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2006 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2007 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2008 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2009 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2010 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2011 WinResized - When a window has been resized
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002012- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the
2013 file now and then ('autosave').
2014 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2015 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2016 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2017 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2018 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2019 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2020 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2021
2022
2023Insert mode completion/expansion:
20248 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2025 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
20269 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2027 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2028 (Webb)
20298 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper
2030 comments.
20318 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2032 - ignore/match case
2033 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020348 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
20358 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2036 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2037 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2038 Should work for C++ and Java.
2039 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
20407 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
20417 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2042 instead of words.
20438 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
20448 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2045 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
20468 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2047 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2048- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2049 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2050 wildcards in the file name)?
2051- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2052- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2053- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2054 be in another file).
2055- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2056- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2057- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2058 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2059- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2060- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2061- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
20628 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2063 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2064 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2065 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2066- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2067
2068
2069Command line editing:
20707 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2071 line.
20728 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2073 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
2074 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
2075- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
2076 lines wraps to start of line).
2077- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
2078 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
2079 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
2080 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
2081 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
2082 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
2083 cmdwin does now already.
2084 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
2085 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
2086 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
2087 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
2088 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
2089 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
2090 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
2091 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
2092 Problems:
2093 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
2094 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
2095 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
2096 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
2097 - Normal: no ":" commands?
2098 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
2099 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
2100 character in first column?
2101 - Implementation ideas:
2102 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
2103 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
2104 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
2105 - sync undo after entering a command line?
2106 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
2107 Mode.
2108
2109
2110Command line completion:
21118 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
21128 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
2113 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
21148 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
2115 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021167 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
2117 edited. (Sven Guckes)
21187 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=.
2119 (Servatius Brandt)
2120- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
2121- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
2122 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
21238 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
21248 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command.
21258 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
2126 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
21277 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
2128 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
2129- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
2130 identifiers (Webb).
21318 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
2132 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
21337 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
2134 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
2135- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
2136 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
2137- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
2138 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
2139 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
2140- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL".
2141
2142
2143Command line history:
2144- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
2145 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
2146 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
2147 completely resulted from one mapping.
2148- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
2149 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
2150
2151
2152Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000021539 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
2154 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
2155 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021568 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
2157 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
2158 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
2159 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
2160 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
21617 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
2162 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021637 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
2164 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
2165- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
2166 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
2167 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
2168 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
2169 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
2170 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
2171- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
2172 Normal mode.
2173- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
2174 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
2175 are used.
2176- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
2177- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
2178- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
2179
2180
2181'cindent', 'smartindent':
21828 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments:
2183 Foo::Foo (int one,
2184 int two)
2185 : something(4)
2186 {}
21878 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines:
2188 Foo::Foo (int one, int two)
2189 : something(4),
2190 somethingelse(3)
2191 {}
21929 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger)
2193 int main ()
2194 {
2195 if (lala)
2196 do
2197 ++(*lolo);
2198 while (lili
2199 && lele);
2200 lulu;
2201 }
22029 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax)
2203 void function(int param) {
2204 if (false)
2205 return;
2206 }
22079 brace not indented correctly:
2208 case 'c': if (cond)
2209 {
2210 Should align with "if" in case statement.
22117 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching
2212 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf &&
2213 asdf
2214 )
22158 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
2216 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
22178 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
2218 func(
2219 new String[] {
2220 "asdf",
2221 "asdf"
2222 }
2223 );
22247 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
2225 func(
2226 int x) // indent like "(4"
2227 {
2228 if (a
2229 && b) // indent like "(0"
22308 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway)
2231 main() { char foo[] = "/*";
2232 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C
2233 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above.
2234 */
2235 hello
22369 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
2237 if (a)
2238 {
2239 if (b)
2240 {
2241 // {
2242 }
2243 } <-- this is indented incorrect
22449 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner)
2245 (void) MyFancyFunction(
2246 argument);
2247- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
2248 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
22497 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
2250- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
2251 line).
2252- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
2253- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
2254 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
22557 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
2256- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
2257 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
2258- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
2259 code), unless the line starts with "*".
2260- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
2261- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
2262 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
22638 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
2264 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
2265 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
2266- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
2267- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
2268 lines start with "\item".
2269- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
2270 /* here is a comment that
2271 is just autoindented, and
2272 nothing else */
2273- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
22747 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
2275 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
2276 indents.
2277 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs.
2278 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and
2279 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases.
2280
2281
2282Java:
22838 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
2284 Odendahl?
22858 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
2286 "[i" commands and friends.
2287- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
2288 (Jason)
2289- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
2290 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
2291
2292
2293'comments':
22948 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
2295 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
2296 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
2297 when it's "#" or "//".
22987 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
2299 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
23007 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
23016 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
2302 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
2303 regexp is used.
23048 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
2305 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
2306
2307
2308Virtual edit:
23098 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
23107 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
2311 end of the line?
23127 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
2313
2314
2315Text objects:
23168 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
23177 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
2318 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
23198 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
2320 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
2321 the end of the line or before a ".".
23227 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
2323 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
23247 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
2325 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023266 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
23275 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
2328 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
2329 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
2330 cursor is on.
2331
2332
2333Select mode:
23348 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
2335 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
23367 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
2337 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
23387 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
2339 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
2340 contains 'C' or 'A'.
2341 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
2342 normal_cmd().
2343 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
2344 - Typing text replaces the selection.
2345
2346
2347Visual mode:
2348- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
2349 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
2350 is in the top line.
23518 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
2352 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
2353 where needed.
23547 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
2355 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
23567 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
2357 of each selected line.
23588 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
23598 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
2360 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
2361 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
23628 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
2363 Ben Godfrey)
23647 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
2365 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
23667 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
2367 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
23687 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
2369 Young is working on this)
23707 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00002371 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002372 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
23738 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
2374 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
23757 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
2376 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
2377 option!
23787 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
2379 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
2380 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
2381 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
2382 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
2383 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
2384 without changing the column.
23856 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023867 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
2387 current buffer.
23887 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
23896 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
2390 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
23916 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
23926 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them.
23936 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
2394 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
2395 or other special character.
23966 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
2397
2398
2399More advanced repeating commands:
2400- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
24017 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
2402 the command line so that it can be repeated?
2403- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
2404 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
2405 "y." will repeat last yank.
2406 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
2407 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
2408 and/or pick an older command.
2409- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
2410
2411
2412Mappings and Abbreviations:
24138 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with
2414 ":verbose set".
24158 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
2416 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
2417 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
24188 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
24197 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
2420 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
24218 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined.
2422 m_script_ID can be used.
24238 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
2424 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
24258 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
24268 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
2427 entering search strings.
24288 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
2429 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
2430 not the <Space>.
24318 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
24328 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
2433 (?) work.
24347 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose
2435 set".
24368 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
2437 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
2438 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
24397 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
24407 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
2441 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
2442 option.
24437 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
2444 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
24457 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
2446 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
2447 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
24487 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
24496 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
2450 abbreviations are to be used.
2451- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
2452 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
2453 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
2454- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
2455- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
2456 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
2457 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
2458- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
2459 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
2460- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
2461 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
2462- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
2463 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
2464- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
2465 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
24666 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
2467 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
2468 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
2469 hit another character.
2470- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
2471 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
2472 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
2473 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
2474 Or implicit:
2475 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
2476- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
2477 non-replace Insert mode?
2478- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
24796 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow
2480 mappings with arguments.
2481- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
2482- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
2483 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
2484- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
2485 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
2486- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
2487 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
2488- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
2489- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
2490 ":freekeys".
2491- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
2492
2493
2494Incsearch:
2495- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
2496- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
2497 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
2498 up every time.
2499- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
2500 folds when going to another line.
2501- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
2502 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
2503 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
2504 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
2505- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
2506 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
2507
2508
2509Searching:
25108 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands
2511 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom.
2512item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
2513 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
2514 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
2515 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
25167 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
2517 search(). (Brett)
25187 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
2519 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025208 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
2521 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
25228 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
2523 line.
25247 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
2525 example.
25268 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
2527 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
2528- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
2529 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
2530 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
2531 Alternative: use matchit.vim
25328 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
25338 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
2534 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
2535 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
25367 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
2537 "\d".
25387 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be
2539 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars.
25408 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
2541 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
2542 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
25438 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
2544 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
25458 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
2546 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
2547 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
2548 search pattern.
2549- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
2550 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
2551- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
2552 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
2553 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
2554 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
25557 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic.
2556- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
2557 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
2558- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
2559 i ignore case
2560 I use case
2561 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
2562 v use Vi regexp syntax
2563 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
2564 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
2565 Perl uses these too:
2566 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
2567 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
2568 o compile only once (Perl only)
2569 s single line expression (we don't need it)
2570 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
2571 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
2572 following command.
2573 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
2574- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
2575 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
2576 for search string)?
25777 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
2578 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
2579- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
2580 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
2581- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
2582 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
2583- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
2584- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
2585 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
2586 a for the next file in the argument list
2587 f for file in the buffer list
2588 w for file edited in a window.
2589 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
2590 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
2591 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
2592 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
2593- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
2594- Special characters in patterns:
2595 Inside []:
2596 \012 octal character
2597 \0x1a hex character
2598 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character
25997 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
2600 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
26017 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
2602 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
2603 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
2604 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
26056 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
2606 effects.
26077 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
2608 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
2609 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
26107 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron)
2611 Also ":dselect".
2612
2613
2614Undo:
2615- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
2616 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
2617 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
26188 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
2619 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
2620 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
2621 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
26228 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
2623 only remember the lines that really changed.
26247 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
2625 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
2626 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
2627 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
26287 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future
2629 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the
2630 undo tree?
2631- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
2632 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
2633- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
2634 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
2635- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
2636 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
2637 [-99].
2638- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
2639- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
2640- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's
2641 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with
2642 viminfo?
2643- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
2644 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
2645
2646
2647Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026487 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
2649 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
2650 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
2651 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
26528 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
2653 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
26548 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
2655 inode too.
26567 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
2657 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest
2658 number in use plus one?)
26597 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
2660 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
2661- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
2662 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
2663- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
2664 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
26657 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
2666 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
26677 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
2668 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
26698 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
26708 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
2671 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
26727 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
2673 internal use and for when executing an external program?
2674
2675
2676Swap (.swp) files:
26778 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
2678 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
2679 there are short file name problems.
26808 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
2681 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
26828 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
26838 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
2684 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
2685 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
2686 file the same as the actual file?
2687 Use the code for resolve()?
26887 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile,
2689 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding
2690 another block to the swapfile.
26917 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
2692 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
26937 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
2694 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
2695 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
2696 enough room.
26977 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
2698 or /var/preserve.
2699- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
2700 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
2701- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
2702 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
2703- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
2704 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
2705 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
2706 cached list of which line is where.
2707
2708
2709Viminfo:
27107 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
2711 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
2712 else's viminfo file.
27138 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
2714 name. (Schild)
27158 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
27168 Remember the last used register for "@@".
27178 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
2718 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
2719 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
2720 this?
27217 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
27227 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
2723 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
27246 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
2725 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
2726 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
2727- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
2728 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
2729
2730
2731Modelines:
27328 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
2733 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
2734 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
2735- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
2736 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
2737 modeline setting.
2738- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
2739 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
2740- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
2741 .cpp files.
2742- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
2743 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
2744- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
2745 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
2746
2747
2748Options:
27498 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer.
27508 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
2751 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
27527 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
2753 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
2754 side effect.
27558 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
2756 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
2757 default value.
27588 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the
2759 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word
2760 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice:
2761 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated)
2762 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file)
2763 "nodir" (don't cd at all)
27648 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
2765 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
2766 also be supported.
27678 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
2768 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
2769 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
27707 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
27717 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
2772 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
27737 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on
2774 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
2775
2776
2777External commands:
27788 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
2779 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
27804 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
2781 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
2782 -f).
27834 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
27844 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
2785 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
27864 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
2787
2788
2789Multiple Windows:
27907 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
27918 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
2792 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
27937 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
2794 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
2795 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
27967 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'.
27976 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
2798 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
2799 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
2800 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
28017 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
2802 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
2803 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
2804 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
2805- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
2806 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
2807 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
2808 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
2809
2810
2811Marks:
28128 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
2813 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
28148 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
28158 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
2816 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
28178 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
2818 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
2819 the mark was set.
28207 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
2821 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
2822 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
2823 ":browse marks"?
28246 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028257 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
2826 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
28277 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
2828 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
28297 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
2830 command).
28317 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
2832 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
2833 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
2834 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
28355 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
2836 mappings.
28376 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
2838 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
2839 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
2840
2841
2842Digraphs:
28437 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
2844 Also the keymap?
2845- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
2846 below/above).
2847- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
2848 characters?
28498 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown)
28507 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
2851 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
2852
2853
2854Writing files:
2855- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
2856 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
2857 shortname conversion.
28588 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
28598 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
2860 file.
28618 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
2862 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
2863 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
28647 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
2865 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
28666 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
2867 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
28686 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
2869 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
28706 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
2871 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
28728 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
2873 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
28747 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
2875 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
28767 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
2877 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
2878 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
2879 waiting for a character to be typed).
28808 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
2881 line of the window, like "[time]".
2882 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
2883 Automatic and/or with a command.
2884
2885
2886Substitute:
28878 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
2888 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
2889- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
2890- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
28918 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
2892 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
2893- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
2894 :s///N substitutes N times.
2895- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
2896 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
2897 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
28987 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
2899 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
2900 last line column 5.
29015 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
2902 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
2903 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
2904 (Stanislav Sitar)
2905
2906
2907Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029088 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
29097 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
29108 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
2911 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
2912 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
29137 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
2914- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
2915- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
2916 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
2917- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
2918- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
2919
2920
2921Crypt and security:
29228 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
2923 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002924
2925
2926Argument list:
29276 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
2928 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
2929 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
29306 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
2931
2932
2933Registers:
29348 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
29358 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
2936 around in windows.
29378 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
2938 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
2939 for every line.
29406 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2941 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2942 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
2943- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
2944 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
2945- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
2946 leader when line wraps?
2947- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
2948 line in the range.
2949- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
2950 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
29518 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
2952 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00002953
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002954
2955Debug mode:
29567 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
29578 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000029588 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029597 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
2960 when evaluating to non-zero.
29617 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
29627 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
2963
2964
2965Various improvements:
29668 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
2967 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029686 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
2969 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
29706 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
29717 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
2972 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
2973 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
29747 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
2975 window as a buffer-tab selection.
29767 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
2977 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
29788 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
2979 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029807 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile".
29816 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029828 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
2983 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
2984 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
2985 in this Vim.
29868 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
2987 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
29888 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
2989 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
2990 have it apply to the following command.
29918 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
2992 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
2993 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
2994 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029957 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
2996 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029977 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
2998 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
2999 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3000 without modifier (unless mapped).
30018 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints.
30027 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
30036 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
30048 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
30059 Support ACLs on more systems.
30067 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3007 highlighted differently.
30088 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args".
30098 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the
3010 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt")
30117 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3012 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3013 (truncated to fit in the space).
30147 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
30158 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
30168 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
3017 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000030187 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003019 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
30207 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
3021 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030227 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030237 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
30247 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030258 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
30268 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
3027 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
3028 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
3029 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
30308 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
30316 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
3032 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
30338 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
30348 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside
3035 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after
3036 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc..
3037 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates
3038 the file before doing ":w" in Vim.
3039 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into
3040 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write.
30418 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
3042 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
3043 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
3044 does something like this. (Shah)
30457 Use growarray for replace stack.
30467 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
3047 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
30483 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
30498 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt?
3050 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one
3051 line down, etc.
30528 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands.
3053 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that
3054 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have
3055 to be made for all functions that list something.
30567 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
3057 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
3058- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
3059 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
3060 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
30617 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
3062 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
3063 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003064- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
3065- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
3066- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
3067- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
30687 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
3069 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
3070- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
3071 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
3072- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
3073- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
3074 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
3075- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
3076 call "play newbeep.au").
3077- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
3078 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
3079 (Bhatt).
3080- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
3081 blockwise registers).
3082- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
3083 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
3084- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
3085 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
3086 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
3087 noticeable.
30889 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another
3089 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command.
3090- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030917 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
3092 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
3093- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
3094 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
3095 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
3096 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
3097 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
30988 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the
3099 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'.
31008 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
3101 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
3102 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
3103 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
3104 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
3105- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
31067 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
3107 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
3108- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
3109 not in column 1.
31106 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
3111 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
31127 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
3113- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
31148 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of
3115 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003116- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
3117 :redir @> register (append)
3118 :redir # bufname
3119 :redir #> bufname (append)
3120 :redir = variable
3121 :redir => variable (append)
3122- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
3123 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
3124 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
31256 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
3126 console? (Klaus Hast)
3127- Add :delcr command:
3128 *:delcr*
3129 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
3130 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
3131 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
3132 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
3133 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
3134 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
3135- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
3136- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
3137 characters from 'isprint'.
3138- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
3139- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
3140 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
3141- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
3142 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
3143 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
3144- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
3145- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
3146 Nvi).
3147- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
3148 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
31497 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
3150- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
3151 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
31526 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
3153- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
3154 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
3155 macro).
3156- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
3157- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match
3158 to jump to. (Zellner)
3159- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
3160 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
3161- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
31628 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
3163- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
3164- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
3165- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
3166- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
3167 if it is not the first or last window.
3168- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
3169 there is one) instead of the file itself.
31707 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
3171 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
3172 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
3173- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
3174- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
3175 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
3176 many percent down the windows).
3177- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
3178 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
3179 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
3180- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
3181 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
3182- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
3183 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
3184- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
3185- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
3186- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
3187 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
3188- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3189- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
31908 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
3191 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
3192 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
3193 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
3194 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
3195- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the
3196 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep".
3197 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be
3198 searched.
3199- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
3200 t_bs is set? (Webb)
3201- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
3202 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
3203- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store
3204 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
3205 (Webb).
3206- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
3207 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
3208- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
3209 hex codes like 0xff).
3210- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
3211 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
3212 the last TYPED command.
3213- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
3214- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
3215- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
3216 should also work?
3217- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
32188 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
3219 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
3220 name.
3221- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
3222 trailing '.'.
3223- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
3224 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
3225 find_file_in_path().
3226- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
3227 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
3228- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
3229- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
3230 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
3231- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
3232 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
3233- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
3234 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
3235 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
3236- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
3237 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
3238- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
3239- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
3240- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
3241 to the minimal size.
3242- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
3243- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
3244- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
3245- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
3246- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
3247- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
3248- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
3249 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
3250- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
3251 entered)?
3252- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
3253 as an output filter.
3254- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
3255- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
3256- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
3257- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
3258- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
3259- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
3260 lines.
3261- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
32628 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
3263 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
3264 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
3265 or in octal.
32667 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
3267 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
3268- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
3269 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
3270- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
3271- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
3272 insert line command).
3273- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
3274- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
3275- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
3276- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
3277- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
3278 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
3279- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
3280 yet.
3281- Implement 'redraw' option.
3282- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
3283 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003284- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read
3285 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism.
32867 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
3287 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
32888 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
3289 do it.
3290- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
3291- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
3292 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
3293- Add text justification option.
3294- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
3295- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
3296 off".
3297- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
3298- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
3299- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
3300 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
3301- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
3302- If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
3303- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
3304- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
3305 commands.
3306- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
3307- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
3308- :table command (Webb)
3309- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
3310- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with
3311 internal scripting language or Perl?
3312- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
3313- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
3314- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
3315- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
3316- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
3317 (Demirel).
3318- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
3319- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
3320 for use in macro's and the like.
3321- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
3322 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
3323- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
3324 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
3325- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
3326 read-only mode).
3327- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
3328 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
3329 a window to become smaller (Webb).
3330- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
3331 proportionally (Webb).
3332- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
3333 mkopttab to make option table?
3334- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
3335 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
3336- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
3337 (Haritsis).
3338- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
3339 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
3340- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
3341 cursor?
3342- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
3343- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
33445 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
3345 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000033468 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
3347 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
3348 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
3349 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
3350 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033518 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
3352 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
3353 (Netherton)
33546 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
3355 space after "(", for example.
33565 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
3357 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
3358 (Servatius Brandt)
3359
3360
3361From Elvis:
3362- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
3363- Add ":alias" command.
3364- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
3365- Search patterns:
3366 \@ match word under cursor.
3367 but do:
3368 \@w match the word under the cursor?
3369 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
33708 ":window" command:
3371 :win + next window (up)
3372 :win ++ idem, wrapping
3373 :win - previous window (down)
3374 :win -- idem, wrapping
3375 :win nr to window number "nr"
3376 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
33777 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
3378 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
3379
3380
3381From Nvi:
3382- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
3383- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
3384- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
33858 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
3386- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
33876 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
3388 :bg :hide
3389 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3390 :dis b :ls
3391 :Edit fname :split fname
3392 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3393 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
3394 :Previous :sprevious
3395 :Tag :stag
3396
3397
3398From xvi:
3399- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
3400- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
3401
3402
3403From vile:
3404- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
3405- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
3406 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
3407
3408
3409Far future and "big" extensions:
3410- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
3411 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
3412- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
3413 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
3414 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
3415 current layout mirrored.
3416- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
3417- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
3418 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
3419- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
3420- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
3421 font in each top-level window.
3422- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
3423- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
3424- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
3425- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
3426 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
3427- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
3428 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
3429 mentioned in the tags file.
3430 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
3431 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
3432- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
3433 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
3434- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
3435 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
34364 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
3437 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
3438 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
3439 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
3440 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
3441 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
3442 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
3443- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
3444 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
3445 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
3446
3447
3448vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
3449vim: set fo+=n :